Potassium Busters Have Arrived
Several recent studies of novel potassium binders were recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) and Journal of the American Medical Association [...]
AKI
Acute Kidney Injury Following Cardiac Surgery: A Well-studied Cohort of AKI
Acute kidney injury (AKI) following cardiothoracic surgery has been well reported in the nephrology literature with numerous studies published in the last decade, although [...]
Hospital-Acquired Acute Kidney Injury and Readmissions
Having to complete excessive paperwork when discharging a patient is an unenviable part of the medical intern’s job description. I learned the hard way that no patient [...]
AKI: What Do the Nephrologists Think?
Acute kidney injury occurs in about 10% of hospitalized patients, but what is less known is the amount of effort AKI consumes in a nephrologist’s day? Does hospital AKI [...]
Drug Abusers and Kidney Disease: A Pathologist Perspective
The autopsy study of Buettner et al provides very interesting data on kidney changes in illicit drug abusers who underwent forensic autopsy following drug-related death. This [...]
SCM14: Liver Disease on Dialysis
Drs. Gina Iacovella and Neelja Kumar (GI&NK), from Yale University Medical Center, discuss their abstract for the National Kidney Foundation’s 2014 Spring Clinical [...]
SCM14: Late-Breaking Abstract: CrCl Equation for AKI
Dr. John Mellas, from Saint Mary’s Health Center, Saint Louis, MO, discusses his abstract for the National Kidney Foundation’s 2014 Spring Clinical Meetings (SCM14), [...]
SCM14: Late-Breaking Abstract: Microscopy? Where Do We Stand?
Dr. Natasha Sharda (NS), from the Division of Nephrology, University of Arizona, discusses her abstract for the National Kidney Foundation’s 2014 Spring Clinical Meetings [...]
SCM14: CRRT and Thrombocytopenia
Dr. Pramod Guru (PG), Critical Care Fellow at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, discusses his abstract for the National Kidney Foundation’s 2014 Spring Clinical Meetings [...]
SCM14: Debates in AKI
Debates in AKI The meeting got off to a rousing start this morning with an epic matchup: Claudio Ronco took on challenger Steven Coca on the issue of whether a rise in serum [...]