Nephrology
- Hematochezia in a patient with end-stage renal disease
The patient developed gastrointestinal bleeding after being started on intravenous heparin following thrombectomy and angioplasty for acute limb ischemia.
Managing chronic kidney disease according to KDIGO risk categories: A primer for primary careThe authors review the KDIGO guideline updates and provide a simplified treatment algorithm for non-nephrologists, focusing on medication sequencing and monitoring.
- KDIGO chronic kidney disease heat map: Let the colors be your guide!
Clinicians need to adopt early interventions that can alter the course of chronic kidney disease for patients.
- Complement inhibition: A whole new world
As these medications enter the mainstream, understanding the complement system and the benefits and risks of therapeutic blockade has become crucial for optimal patient care.
- Clinical application of the complement system: A historical perspective
Now that our understanding of complement has evolved to therapeutic targeting of components of the cascade in a wide range of diseases, it is time to give the complement system another look.
- Rapidly progressive kidney failure in an 82-year-old man with respiratory symptoms
The patient presented to the emergency department due to worsening dry cough, lower-extremity edema, and fatigue, all of which had begun about 2 weeks earlier.
- Finding the cause of severe hypokalemia: A 4-step approach
This case illustrates the approach to a group of conditions associated with hypokalemia that usually pose a diagnostic challenge.
