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Test Your Knowledge: Complement

October 18, 2019 // 0 Comments

We’ve been releasing quiz questions from NephMadness 2019 every week as we count down to the NephMadness 2020 logo reveal at Kidney Week. Did you miss any of the previous quizzes? Catch up here. This week we focus on the Complement Region. The [read more...]

Test Your Knowledge: Volume Assessment

October 11, 2019 // 0 Comments

NephMadness 2019 featured the Volume Assessment region. What is the best way to objectively assess the volume status of patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD), and on what volume-related endpoints should we base our fluid management [read more...]

Test Your Knowledge: Hepatorenal Syndrome

October 4, 2019 // 0 Comments

NephMadness 2019 featured the Hepatorenal Region. Patients with liver failure are sick. Patients with acute kidney injury (AKI) are sick. Put the two together and you have a fine mess. Test your knowledge on hepatorenal syndrome with the quiz* [read more...]

Test Your Knowledge: Pain

September 26, 2019 // 1 Comment

We are releasing a quiz* each week from the eight regions of NephMadness 2019, in anticipation of the NephMadness 2020 logo reveal at Kidney Week. We focused on Plasma Exchange last week and now turn to the Pain Region. Whenever we consider giving [read more...]

Test Your Knowledge: Plasma Exchange

September 19, 2019 // 0 Comments

We cannot wait to share the NephMadness 2020 logo at Kidney Week. Until then, we are releasing a quiz* each week from the eight regions of NephMadness 2019, starting with the Plasma Exchange region this week. Plasmapheresis, simply removal of [read more...]

#NephMadness 2019: Complement Region

March 15, 2019 // 0 Comments

Submit your picks! | NephMadness 2019 | #NephMadness | #ComplementRegion Selection Committee Member: Carla Nester Carla Nester is the Director of Pediatric Nephrology in the Stead Family Children’s Hospital at the University of Iowa and the [read more...]

#KidneyWk 2018: Education Poster Tour

November 5, 2018 // 0 Comments

Another ASN Kidney Week has concluded, and it was an amazing week full of learning and meeting new individuals. I took a tour through the education research posters on Saturday, October 27, 2018. It is definitely an exciting time in education [read more...]

Sweet Pee: Do SGLT2 Inhibitors Prevent and/or Slow the Progression of Diabetic Kidney Disease?

August 15, 2018 // 1 Comment

During NephMadness 2017, the newcomer ‘SGLT2 inhibitors’ team for the Diabetic Nephropathy region surprised the competition and made it all the way to the Filtered Four where it was knocked out by the eventual winner Genes in ESKD Disparity. In [read more...]

#NephMadness 2018: Women’s Health Region

March 15, 2018 // 1 Comment

Submit your picks! | NephMadness 2018 | #NephMadness | #WomensHealthRegion “It is said you are never defeated unless you give up. We’re not going to give up.” – Pat Summitt, the all-time winningest coach in NCAA basketball [read more...]

Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: A Race Effect on the Kidneys

January 5, 2018 // 0 Comments

Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is defined as the onset of impaired glucose tolerance during pregnancy. Its prevalence has been steadily climbing, fueled in large part by the obesity epidemic. Pregnancy-related adverse outcomes of GDM include [read more...]

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