Nephrology

  • What is the rationale for the laboratory workup for suspected pheochromocytomas and paragangliomas?
    Hiba Z. Hashmi, MD, Muhammad Arslan Arif Maan, MD and Laura LaFave, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2023, 90 (3) 150-153; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.90a.20197

    The decision to test is best guided by clinical suspicion. Test results should be interpreted with careful consideration of how the samples were collected.

  • Resistant hypertension: A stepwise approach
    Resistant hypertension: A stepwise approach
    Jordana Yahr, DO, George Thomas, MD, Juan Calle, MD and Jonathan J. Taliercio, DO
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine February 2023, 90 (2) 115-125; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.90a.22046

    The authors review the definition and prevalence of resistant hypertension and its diagnostic workup and management, including lifestyle modifications, drugs, and experimental therapies.

  • Hypophosphatemia in a patient with an eating disorder
    Maxwell J. Uetz, MD, Christopher D. Knapp, MD, MPH and Samuel T. Ives, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2022, 89 (11) 625-629; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.89a.21074

    A 32-year-old woman referred from an eating disorder treatment center reported memory difficulty, trouble concentrating, and feeling “hazy.” She was taking oral potassium phosphate 3 times daily.

  • Unilateral atrophic kidney in a 45-year-old woman
    Mohammad A. Sohail, MD, John Sedor, MD, Lee Kirksey, MD, MBA, Steven C. Blaha, MD and Heather Hofmann, MD, FACP
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine August 2022, 89 (8) 465-471; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.89a.21015

    The patient presented with 2 days of constant, sharp, nonradiating flank pain on the right side, worse with movement and coughing, and severe enough to limit ambulation.

  • Treating anemia: It’s not just the EPO
    Brian F. Mandell, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine April 2022, 89 (4) 174-175; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.89b.04022

    Long-term effects of treatment with the new oral inhibitors of prolyl hydroxylase will need to be carefully monitored, as prolyl hydroxylase is a key structural component of diverse proteins.

  • The devil is in the details: Approach to refractory hypokalemia
    Carmen Elena Cervantes, MD, Karthik Meiyappan Udayappan, MD and Duvuru Geetha, MBBS, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine April 2022, 89 (4) 182-188; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.89a.21013

    The authors illustrate a stepwise approach to the evaluation of acid-base disturbances.

  • Anemia of chronic kidney disease: Will new agents deliver on their promise?
    Anemia of chronic kidney disease: Will new agents deliver on their promise?
    Tarek Souaid, MD, Jonathan Taliercio, DO, James F. Simon, MD, MBA, Ali Mehdi, MD, MEd and Georges N. Nakhoul, MD, MEd
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine April 2022, 89 (4) 212-222; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.89a.21100

    A review of the pathophysiology of anemia of chronic kidney disease, major clinical trials, and novel therapies.

  • Extraosseous calcification in kidney disease
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine April 2022, 89 (4) 223;

    The following article in the February 2022 issue contained an error: Bartolomeo K, Tan XY, Fatica R. Extraosseous calcification in kidney disease. Cleve Clin J Med 2022; 89(2):81–90. doi:10.3949/ccjm.89a.21073

  • Extraosseous calcification in kidney disease
    Extraosseous calcification in kidney disease
    Korey Bartolomeo, DO, Xin Yee Tan, MD and Richard Fatica, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine February 2022, 89 (2) 81-90; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.89a.21073

    A review of the pathogenesis, presentation, diagnosis, and treatment of vascular and soft tissue calcifi cation.

  • SGLT-2 inhibitors are potential game-changers (for more than diabetes)
    Brian F. Mandell, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2021, 88 (11) 588-589; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.88b.11021

    Data from large clinical trials and improved understanding of the biologic effects of these drugs are changing expectations for the clinical course in patients with diabetes, as well as chronic kidney disease and heart failure.

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