Acute interstitial nephritis (AIN) has resurfaced as an important cause of kidney injury in the hospitalized patient, particularly because...

The next episode of the Wash U Nephrology Web Series was published this morning and is back to the basics with a great renal pathology teach...

The International Society for Hemodialysis' Hemodialysis University is a two-day course that will be taking place in Chicago Sept 9-10t...

Free accommodation is available for nephrology fellows and residents (IM or Surgery) for Friday night (October 14) at Home 2 Suites...

What if we could do more frequent dialysis? Would this improve QOL as potentially seen in the original FHN trial or even improve survival...

Hypokalemia, hypertension, and metabolic alkalosis - this clinical triad can be seen in a variety of interesting disorders that unfortun...

As I prepare for my nephrology fellowship, I find that in preparing my didactics as a chief resident, I selfishly (and perhaps subconsciou...

Patient is a 37-year-old female with cystic fibrosis, recurrent nephrolithiasis who presents to clinic with asymptomatic bilateral kidney ...

GFR varies under normal physiological conditions and during illnesses . A popular example is a low GFR in vegetarians and a higher GFR in co...

How important is obesity to the field of nephrology? Perhaps obesity is the single strongest risk factor for CKD in the US and most of th...

I was asked to see 74 year old man with an acute on chronic kidney injury.  He had 2 days of generalised lower abdominal pain and vomitin...