#NephMadness 2020: Green Nephrology Region
Submit your picks! | NephMadness 2020 | #NephMadness | #GreenRegion Selection Committee Member: Katherine Barraclough Katherine Barraclough is a Consultant Nephrologist [...]
mesoamerican nephropathy
Mesoamerican Mysteries: CKD Among Brickmaking Workers in Nicaragua
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a growing problem worldwide, and as highlighted in NephMadness 2016, there is a relatively new form of CKD of nontraditional etiology in [...]
AKI Biomarkers in Nicaraguan Sugarcane Workers
Mesoamerican Nephropathy is a CKD epidemic in Central America affecting predominantly outdoor agricultural workers. The pattern of injury is a chronic tubulo-interstitial [...]
Test Your Knowledge: Mesoamerican Nephropathy
AJKD recently published a Perspective on Mesoamerican Nephropathy (MeN) focusing on the theory of heat stress and exercise-induced uric acid crystalluria as mechanisms of [...]
Three Epidemics Across 10,000 Miles: Can We Connect the Dots?
Invited commentary by Dr. Veeraish Chauhan Recently, the Center for Public Integrity, an investigative journalism organization, published an article on Mesoamerican [...]
MesoAmerican Nephropathy: A New Entity
Recently, endemic rates of chronic kidney disease (CKD) have been identified in plantation workers and young farmers in Central America. The clinical profile of these [...]