Atlas: Clinical Quiz 1
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
Test Your Knowledge on a variety of nephrology topics with these quizzes.
Test Your Knowledge: Onco-Nephrology
The overlap of hematology, oncology, and nephrology has led to the creation of a field called Onconephrology. Cancer survivors are living longer and developing chronic kidney [...]
Test Your Knowledge: Magnesium – The Forgotten Star of Dialysis Patients’ Health
I once watched a profoundly meditative video on YouTube. It was one of those philosophical discourses that forces one to look at the big picture, and perhaps take life a [...]
Test Your Knowledge: Immunology and Transplantation
AJKD recently published a Core Curriculum by Dr. Donald Hricik on transplant immunology and immunosuppression. The following questions based on the article will test your [...]
Test Your Knowledge: Too High or Too Low Potassium in ESRD
Sudden cardiac death accounts for 25% of deaths in end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients. Despite recent improvements, the rate is dramatically higher than the general [...]
Test Your Knowledge: CRS and the Role of Bone-Mineral Axis & Anemia
There has been longstanding recognition of the relationship between CKD and cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. More recently, the term “cardiorenal syndrome” has [...]
Test Your Knowledge: Polyomavirus-Associated Nephropathy
Polyomavirus-associated nephropathy (PVAN) is common in kidney transplant patients, but infrequent following hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). Aside from [...]
Test Your Knowledge: HIV and The Kidney
In a quiz published in AJKD, Lum et al (freely available) describe a case of acute kidney injury in a patient with well-controlled HIV infection on highly active [...]
Test Your Knowledge: Hyponatremia in Pregnancy
Hyponatremia in pregnancy is not uncommon, but may on occasion be severe enough to warrant a thorough evaluation and intervention. In a recent case published in AJKD, [...]
Test Your Knowledge: Lupus Nephritis & Thrombotic Microangiopathy
In the January issue of AJKD, El-Husseini et al describe a case of lupus nephritis-associated thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA) that was successfully treated with eculizumab, [...]