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 [...]
AKI
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 [...]
Dialysis in AKI: When to Start?
The timing of when to initiate dialysis in a patient with acute or even chronic kidney disease (CKD) is one of the most common decisions that a nephrologist will make. [...]
ACEi and ARBs and AKI Following CT SURGERY: Where Do We Stand?
Sometimes doing hospital nephrology rounds is like being a medical Cassandra; we know when and why a patient will develop acute kidney injury (AKI), but are unable to avoid [...]
Pesticides and Kidney Disease: Taking Good History
Acute tubular necrosis (ATN) is a common cause of acute kidney injury. In cases where the patient presents from home, the cause of ATN is determined by analysis of the [...]
Oral Acyclovir and Acute Kidney Injury? Is There a Risk?
Drug safety is a critical concern in medicine. A recent trend is the late discovery of drug complications after the drug’s approval. A recent study published in the May [...]
SCM13: Video Interview with Dr. Angela Muriithi
Dr. Angela Muriithi, from the Mayo Clinic, discusses her poster for the National Kidney Foundation’s 2013 Spring Clinical Meetings (SCM13), Acute interstitial nephritis in [...]
World Kidney Day 2013
Today marks the 8th World Kidney Day. Each year, World Kidney Day has served to draw attention to kidney disease, its prevention, and treatment. This year World Kidney Day [...]
Do We have a Troponin for Acute Kidney Injury?
Acute kidney injury (AKI) is common after cardiac surgery, and associated with adverse patient outcomes. Urinary cystatin C (CysC) is a biomarker of proximal tubule function [...]
Lymphoma and the Kidney
Invited commentary by Dr. Parmjeet Randhawa In the December issue of the American Journal of Kidney Diseases, Shi et al describe a patient with B-cell lymphoma presenting as [...]