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CRRT clotting? The answer is access, access, access--Leo Yessayan

Nephrology bootcamp is off to the races Michael Heung suggests AEIOU as mnemonic to remember indications for dialysis. Learning lots.

Week one done #nephforward

Our first time meeting to our last hangout - from nephron to nephrologists!

In Ann Arbor, at the one and only @uofmichigan.bsky.social medical campus: academics, friends, good times 💪 @vipvargh.bsky.social

If it takes 25-30 years to lose your first half of nephrons, it won’t take another 25-30 years to lose the second half

Full circle being back at #kidneycon

First came here as a medical student and now coming back as a nephrology fellow 6 years later!

The “Terli Trio” delivered in this year’s #nkfclinicals NephMadness Fellow’s Debate!

Congrats to team terlipressin for winning the #NephMadness debate at #NKFClinicals

🎉 Congrats to Julie Wright Nunes et al whose paper has been selected for the "AJKD Editors' Choice: NKF Mission Award":

Patient Education for CKD and Decision Support in Primary Care: Findings From the EPIK Pilot Study

bit.ly/3QFxsf1 (FREE)

#NKFClinicals

For those interested in glomerular stuff, you gotta see our line-up for the Glom Dis session at KidneyCon! And they will attack the topics that make all of us scratch our heads. Register ASAP, May 1-3 #KidneyCon 2025 @isgd.bsky.social @glomcon.org @kidneycon.bsky.social

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Just a few more days until the #NephMadness Fellows Debate at #NKFClinicals this Friday in Boston

Spicy!

Adding lasix to the management of hepatorenal syndrome might be ok if you bump the MAP with pressors

@juancarlosqvelez.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1016/j.ek...
#nephsky #liversky

I guess I can forgive the rhyming beans with Orleans

Predatory journal email

Fun spam of the day

Not just any journal - it’s the Mega Journal of Case Reports (impact factor 6.705!)

#MedSky #NephSky

Roger's cheat sheet that converts Hydrogen concentration to pH

The classic ABG "map"

[H+] = 24 x pCO2/[HCO3-]

The Channelers in their bowling shirts

Channel Your Enthusiasm, Chapter 17 of Burton Rose Clinical Physiology of Acid-Base and Electrolyte Disorders is out!

An hour and a half of "Introduction to Simple and Mixed Acid-Base Disorders!"

www.rosebook.club/episodes/202...

No BP no pee pee 😊

You know that an awesome discussion just took place, when you walk into a room, and the white board looks like this:

a cartoon says hey everybody an old man 's talking while bart simpson looks on ALT: a cartoon says hey everybody an old man 's talking while bart simpson looks on

A Primer on Indirect Cost Rates

Excited to say, I’ll be joining Henry Ford Division of Nephrology after completing fellowship this year 😊

The highly anticipated #KidneyCON annual meeting is around the corner: May 1-3, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA. Register now! Amazing line-up of speakers and outstanding one-of-a-kind hands-on workshops

a man stands in front of a blackboard with the words it 's paradoxical and yet it works ALT: a man stands in front of a blackboard with the words it 's paradoxical and yet it works

The Aldosterone Paradox: A Skeetutorial:

YouTube video by Joel Topf lowest urine Cr ever

since I can't upload the animated gif to Bluesky, here is a short youtube clip with sound!

youtu.be/R_LrpTEAnBs

These tirzepatide miracles are almost becoming routine
Weight down 110 lbs
Hgb a1c from 12 to 8
Cr from 3.4 to 2.8
Albumin Cr ratio from 1254 to 280

All at 5 mg a week

🎉 Thrilled to share our commentary in Kidney International Reports
✅Is it time to expand the use of SGLT2 inhibitors in KTRs?
▶️Read on
www.kireports.org/article/S246...
@theisn.org @kireports.bsky.social @myadla.bsky.social @hswapnil.medsky.social @brianrifkin.bsky.social

“I don’t have diabetes any more!” ≠ “My renal clearance of endogenous insulin had reduced to the point where I no longer require exogenous insulin.”

Confession: I LOVE hyponatremia 🤓

(I know, I know. What can I say, I'm a true internist!)

HypoNa is often feared, maligned, and misunderstood - but I promise it doesn't have to be scary!

Here are my top 10 hyponatremia tips and tricks - a 🧵

#emimcc