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A woman with no past medical history was admitted to the ICU service with acute kidney injury secondary to atypical HUS. She was early in pregnancy and we were consulted in order to start dialysis. Th e...
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NAME THE AGENT: 45 Y OLD MALE WITH SARCOMA GETS WORSENING RENAL FAILURE AFTER CHEMOTHERAPY X. LABS SHOW PERSISTENT HYPOURICEMIA, HYPOKALEMIA, HYPOPHOSPHATEMIA AND NON GAP ACIDOSIS AS WELL. URINE PH VA LUES...
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The May eJournalClub of CJASN selection, "Efficacy and Tolerance of Urea Compared with Vaptans for Long-Term Treatment of Patients with SIADH" by Alain Soupart, MD and colleaguesCheck it...
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Besides causing many other problems, obesity is leading to
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Recently articles in the medical literature shed light on an important shortage besides nephrology- geriatricians. Geriatric medicine was founded as a specialty in 1988 and a fellowship track was crea ted...
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Type of care
Dialysis patients
Cancer patients
Hospitalization
76.0%
61.3%
Average number of days hospitalized
9.8
5.1
Intensive care unit
48.9%
24.0%
Average number of days in ICU
3.5
1.3
V entilator...
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Check out next 4 days live blog posts, videos, audios and tweeter feeds from NKF by Dr.Tejas Desai as part of eAJKD
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Expert panel published recently the first ever guide to Lupus Nephritis treatment. The medical news community and lay press has mentioned it at numerous occasions alreadySome summary po ints...
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Cardiovascular disease is the main cause of death among ESRD patients. However, this excess cardiovascular mortality in ESRD patients should not be mainly attributed to coronary artery disease or myoc ardial...
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Check out the image of the week and Cases of the week on Nephropathology.comhttp://www.nephro-pathology.com/index.html
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