Spurious Electrolytes in Malignancy
Dr. Helbert Rondon, @NephroMD, is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Renal-Electrolyte Division at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine where he also serves [...]
electrolytes
#NephMadness 2023: Onconephrology Region
Submit your picks! | NephMadness 2023 | #NephMadness | #OncoNephrology Selection Committee Member: Matthew Abramson @M_Abramson Matthew Abramson is an academic nephrologist [...]
How Accurate Are the Formulas for the Osmolal Gap?
The osmolal gap is most commonly used in screening for toxic alcohol ingestion. In the absence of other unmeasured solutes, sodium, glucose, and urea are the primary solutes [...]
Potassium Intake: Does It Matter for CKD and Hypertension?
Invited commentary by Dr. Timothy Yau. As nephrologists who regularly manage the complications of chronic kidney disease (CKD), our visceral reaction to high potassium intake [...]
PPI and Kidney Disease: AIN and Hypomagnesemia
Since the first introduction of proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) in 1989, their high efficacy and low side effect profile has led to their becoming one of the most widely [...]
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 [...]
The Forgotten Element: Magnesium Minimizes Mortality in Maintenance Hemodialysis
The literature surrounding interventions to improve clinical outcomes in hemodialysis patients is littered with negative trials, be that with dose of dialysis, nocturnal [...]
Hyponatremia and Mortality
In December 2005, the first effective vasopressin antagonist, conivaptan, was approved. Several months later when I spoke to my hospital’s Pharmacy and Therapeutic [...]
Dialysis Bicarbonate Concentration: Do We Know the Right Amount?
Bicarbonate is the principal buffer in dialysate, but only few studies have assessed outcomes of patients treated with different dialysate bicarbonate (DB) concentrations. A [...]