💥Swelling & Pain at the dialysis AV access site - don’t forget this entity in your differential diagnosis
⚡️Though it is rare it usually carries a very poor prognosis👇🏽 @ASDINNews #VascularAccessPearls
⚡️This is Angiosarcoma at an old AVG site
⚡️Patient was no longer on dialysis as she had a functioning renal allograft & was on Immunosuppression 👇🏽
⚡️Published in #JournalOfVascularAccess
The most anticipated nephrology trial of the year has been published!
“Empagliflozin in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease” #Kidneywk
@NEJM nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…
EMPA-KIDNEY trial is a randomized, parallel-group, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial designed to assess the effect of empagliflozin on progression of kidney disease & CV disease, & to examine safety profile of the drug in a wide range of pts. w/ CKD
The trial included patients without diabetes, patients with an eGFR of less than 30 ml per minute per 1.73 m2, and patients with low levels of proteinuria
📌 Tweetorial on “IgA Nephropathy: Approach to treatment” based on @goKDIGO webinar by Dr. Richard Lafayette
🔸First step in management of IgAN: Determine the risk of disease progression based on GFR, proteinuria, BP & kidney biopsy findings👇🏽 1/
📌 Approach to treatment of IgAN based on @goKDIGO guidelines👇🏽
🔸This Rx algorithm is NOT applicable to IgA deposition with minimal change disease, IgAN with AKI, IgAN with RPGN, IgA vasculitis, IgA-dominant post-infections GN & secondary forms of IgAN👇🏽 2/
📌 IgAN: All patients should receive supportive care:
🔸 Optimal BP management
🔸 Maximally tolerated ACEi/ARB
🔸 Lifestyle modification
🔸 Reduction of cardiovascular
risk👇🏽
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📌 Tweetorial on Diagnosis & Pathogenesis of IgA Nephropathy (IgAN) based on @goKDIGO webinar by @AgnesFogo & Dr. Jurgen Floege #IgAN
🔸Interesting fact: IgAN is not a new disease
First known case of IgAN was found in Prince Joseph of Austria (1776-1847) 1/
📌 IgAN is characterized by:
🔸Mesangial immune-complex deposits which sometimes can extend to the capillary loops & sub-endothelial locations
🔸 Dominant IgA deposits compared to the other immunoglobulins 2/
📌 IgA deposits in IgAN are typically polyclonal & lambda is more prominent than kappa
Dr. Carlos Flombaum from @MSK_Neph gave a holiday lecture full of historic pearls. We are so lucky to have Dr. Flombaum in our division!
Did you know how Cisplatin was ‘accidentally’ discovered?👇🏽 1/
Did you know that allopurinol was first studied as an anti-neoplastic agent. Well, it didn’t work as a cancer therapy but it was eventually used to treat gout and hyperuricemia
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In the 1970s, the Renal division at @sloan_kettering was called the Division of Clinical Physiology. Not too surprising as we all know that to be a good nephrologist you have to know physiology
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