A cool article from this month's AJKD describes several of the Nephrology-related aphorisms originally penned by Hippocrates sometime a...

Testing for the presence of urine eosinophils is often performed when the diagnosis of acute interstitial nephritis is suspected.  The landm...

We're all taught that looking for dysmorphic red blood cells on urinalysis is a useful marker of glomerular hematuria.  But how do we de...

One of the easier aspects to taking an examination like the boards is pattern recognition: there are certain images or associations that sh...

There are only limited treatment options for hepatorenal syndrome, and many would argue that treatment of type I hepatorenal syndrome (the b...

Pictured on the left is Bob Cratchit and his crippled son, Tiny Tim, two beloved characters from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol .  I...

Though rare, propofol infusion syndrome (PRIS) is a cause of acute kidney injury in the appropriate ICU setting. As we all know, propofol is...

Hyponatremia can be broadly divided into two fundamental categories:  "true hyponatremia" (in which the serum sodium concentration...

Let's talk about rapid A.B.G. analysis. Just to clarify, I'm talking about arterial blood gases, not the religious rap group " ...

This month's Kidney International features an interesting report by Vaidya et al which reports on the development of a potentially usef...

For a while, maybe longer if I do.... No, I'm not talking about the one-hit wonder song "Amy" by Pure Prairie League ...I...

Dialysis catheters:  the bane of the renal fellow's existence. I'm sure there are some of you who actually like putting in catheter...

The dilemma:  there are a subset of patients with some type of paraproteinemia--e.g., light chain deposition disease or amyloidosis, for ins...

If you've never heard the biochemical sleuthwork involved in the legal case of Patricia Stallings, it's definitely worth reading abo...

One of the more common (and potentially successful) suicide attempts is to drink a bunch of antifreeze, which contains ethylene glycol. As ...

As you may recall, macroglossia (an enlarged tongue) is one of the many manifestations of amyloidosis, the systemic disorder in which a part...

Changes in the regulation of serum osmolarity is just one of the many chances that occurs during the normal physiologic response to pregnanc...

One of the major side effects of cyclophosphamide (Cytoxan) in both men and women is gonadal failure and resultant infertility.  While there...

Here's a very brief overview of the kidneys of animals (other than humans). All vertebrates have kidneys and the functional unit of the ...

A very significant percentages of ESRD patient admissions derive from clotted dialysis access--the "lifeline" dialysis patients re...

One of the rare (but potentially underdiagnosed) causes of anion gap metabolic acidosis is acquired 5-oxoprolinuria due to excessive Tylenol...

A recent paper in the most recent issue of JASN by Louvar et al asks the "nature versus nurture" question of deceased donor kidney...

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a movie is worth a thousand pictures, right? What is this video of exactly?  This elegant work ...

The rate of patients >75 years of age initiating dialysis has grown substantially in the U.S. over the past two decades.  This has to do ...

The following "3 Key Facts Regarding Catheter-Related Bacteremia" are taken from Eliot Heher's "MGH Nephrology Handbook...

One of the diagnostic dilemmas which frequently comes up in the outpatient evaluation of hypercalcemia (and also, I'm told, on boards-ty...

For the research component of my Nephrology fellowship, I've chosen an unorthodox route:  I am using the zebrafish as a model organism f...

The potassium-sparing diuretics consist of the following 4 medications--only some of which (spironolactone & eplerenone in the list belo...

A recent review in this month's AJKD by Perl and Bargman describes the increasingly recognized importance of residual renal function in...

Couldn't figure out how to embed the video so I've just posted the link of a daredevil who "exploded his kidney" (accordin...

Having grown up in Minnesota and being a rabid sports fan, I have an obligation to closely follow the Minnesota Vikings, no matter how much ...

Following up on the discussion of milk-alkali syndrome, a similar syndrome (hypercalcemia, metabolic alkalosis, and acute renal failure) may...

Heard about a case of milk-alkali syndrome at Renal Grand Rounds yesterday. This is an interesting condition whose pathophysiologic mechanis...

Us renal fellows are likely to take for granted the fact that virtually all dialysis buffers used today are bicarbonate-based buffer systems...

A recent article just published in Nature Genetics by Kottgen et al identifies several loci which appear to confer susceptibility to the de...