Test Your Knowledge: Kidney Stones
Kidney stones are a common, “bread and butter” condition encountered by nephrologists in clinical practice. In the United States, up to 16% of men and 8% of [...]
Test Your Knowledge
Test Your Knowledge on a variety of nephrology topics with these quizzes.
Test Your Knowledge: Urine Microscopy
A recent paper in AJKD by Becker et al. describes advances in urine microscopy, including both manual and automated techniques. This comes at a time when the skill of urine [...]
Atlas: Clinical Quiz 5
A 70-year-old woman was diagnosed with Sjögren syndrome four years ago. She also has a history of hypertension, which has recently become difficult to control. She presented [...]
Test Your Knowledge: Evaluation of Polyuria
A recent Teaching Case by Bhasin et al (freely available) published in the March issue of AJKD describes a case of mixed polyuria in the outpatient setting associated with [...]
Test Your Knowledge: Geriatric and Palliative Care Nephrology
The aging population with chronic kidney disease has called for a paradigm shift in the approach to treatment decision-making. Nephrologists are faced with unique challenges [...]
Test Your Knowledge: Optimal Sodium Bath for Hemodialysis
Fluid overload in patients undergoing hemodialysis (HD) contributes to cardiovascular morbidity, and is a major cause of hospitalizations. Does the dialysate sodium bath [...]
Atlas: Clinical Quiz 4
Post prepared by and all images courtesy of Tibor Nadasdy, MD, AJKD Blog Contributor and AJKD Kidney Biopsy Teaching Case Advisory Board member. For a PDF version of the [...]
Test Your Knowledge: Mesoamerican Nephropathy
AJKD recently published a Perspective on Mesoamerican Nephropathy (MeN) focusing on the theory of heat stress and exercise-induced uric acid crystalluria as mechanisms of [...]
Atlas: Clinical Quiz 3
Post prepared by and all images courtesy of Tibor Nadasdy, MD, AJKD Blog Contributor and AJKD Kidney Biopsy Teaching Case Advisory Board member. For a PDF version of the [...]
Atlas: Clinical Quiz 2
Post prepared by and all images courtesy of Tibor Nadasdy, MD, AJKD Blog Contributor and AJKD Kidney Biopsy Teaching Case Advisory Board member. For a PDF version of the [...]