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NephMadness 2016: Recreational Drugs and the Kidney Region

March 10, 2016 // 2 Comments

Submit your picks! | For more on NephMadness 2016 | #NephMadness or #DrugsRegion on Twitter “Eight hours work, eight hours sleep, and eight hours recreation” – Brigham Young “If Bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close [read more...]

NephMadness 2016: Let the Madness Begin

March 10, 2016 // 1 Comment

What is NephMadness? NephMadness is an homage to the NCAA Basketball Tournament, March Madness, but while the basketball tournament seeds the top ranked basketball teams, we use some of the most important, newest, and controversial concepts in [read more...]

NephMadness 2016: Why We Do This

March 10, 2016 // 1 Comment

Today is World Kidney Day. The day on the calendar when we are supposed to spend some time thinking about our kidneys. Well, the team at AJKD blog never stops thinking about kidneys. We’re weird that way, so we use World Kidney Day to do something [read more...]

NephMadness for Dummies

March 7, 2016 // 0 Comments

Before we get to the details, we want to provide the links: Make your picks at the bracket picking site or The educational content at AJKD Blog Every March, the nephrology social media scene is dominated by NephMadness, an homage to the [read more...]

NephMadness 2015: Infectious Disease • First Round Results

March 22, 2015 // 0 Comments

See the Current Standings! | For more on NephMadness 2015 | #NephMadness or #IDRegion on Twitter Vancomycin Renal Toxicity vs Piperacillin/Tazobactam Toxicity Winner: Vancomycin Renal Toxicity 6-1 split Vancomycin Renal Toxicity cruises to an easy [read more...]

NephMadness 2015: Let the Madness Begin

March 1, 2015 // 0 Comments

What is NephMadness? NephMadness is an homage to the NCAA Basketball Tournament, March Madness, but while the basketball tournament seeds the top ranked basketball teams, we use some of the most important, newest, and controversial concepts in [read more...]

NephMadness 2015: Infectious Disease and Nephrology Region

March 1, 2015 // 0 Comments

Submit your picks! | For more on NephMadness 2015 | #NephMadness or #IDRegion on Twitter This virulent bracket has it all: insidious latent viruses, CNS toxic antibiotics, nephrotoxic antibiotics and nephrotoxic viruses. Infectious Disease [read more...]

A New Nephrologic Syndrome: Acute Fellowship Insufficiency

December 15, 2014 // 13 Comments

Invited commentary by Dr. Warren Kupin The fallout from the nephrology fellowship match this year and its short and long-term consequences are becoming painfully clear to program directors as well as those of us in clinical practice. Fewer than 50% [read more...]

NephMadness 2014 • Thanks

April 10, 2014 // 2 Comments

See the final standings! | NephMadness.com for backstory | #NephMadness on Twitter As you might imagine, pulling off NephMadness was a huge undertaking. So many people were involved in creating this educational initiative. The NephMadness team [read more...]

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