renal

The word "dialysis" evokes many clinical indications and contexts. In chronic end-stage renal disease (ESRD), patients typically have some form of long-term access like an AV fistula for their scheduled sessions. In the short term, we're…

I'm officially finished with my first rotation as a resident... but I'm going to really miss everyone I worked with this past month on nephrology. Each day posed a new set of challenges in patient management, interesting cases during…

Over the last month, I've picked up a lot of factoids on the renal consult service which I'd like to brain dump for future reference:

"Glom" (a term we toss around on the renal service) refers to the glomerulus, a nephron's initial filtering component, which is often implicated in renal pathologies like multiple myeloma, amyloidosis, membranous disease, focal segmental…

The best part about working over the weekend (hah, what a grown-up thing to say) is that parking is easy, there aren't any conferences to pause workflow, and I have an excuse to eat Fruit Loops at the hospital "because nothing else is…

After all the patients I've seen with ascites secondary to hepatic cirrhosis, I wondered why we tend to start them on 100 mg Aldactone (spironolactone) with a 40 mg Lasix (furosemide) adjuvant. What's the rationale behind this ratio? What's…