Showing posts with label nephrology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nephrology. Show all posts
Friday, June 11, 2021

Primary aldosteronism: an update

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  Here's an update on this topic recently published in Cardiology in Review. The original Conn syndrome was described ...
Thursday, August 20, 2020

Anticoagulation for atrial fibrillation in stages 4 and 5 of CKD

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From a recently published study : Purpose The aim of this study was to investigate whether oral anticoagulants can provide effica...
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Friday, August 02, 2019

Cardiorenal syndrome

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The AHA scientific statement is available as free full text here .
Monday, May 06, 2019

Management of acute kidney injury

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From a review in the Journal of Hospital Medicine: Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common complication in hospitaliz...
Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Adjuvant metolazone (zaroxalin) in loop diuretic refractory patients

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Resist the temptation to add the “big Z” according to this study .
Monday, March 25, 2019

Checking urine eosinophils to evaluate for acute interstitial nephritis

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I agree this is one we should probably just stop doing . Not that it’s costing a lot of money or harming patients, but, desp...
Thursday, March 21, 2019

Topiramate renal toxicity

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Nice summary from Nephron Power .
Tuesday, March 19, 2019

The strong ion difference in predicting the severity of acute pancreatitis

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From a recent paper : Conclusions In a cohort of patients with AP, SIG was a strong independent predictor of...
Saturday, March 16, 2019

RALES disease

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An emerging iatrogenic disease .
Tuesday, March 12, 2019

Effect of angiotensin II in patients with vasodilatory (mainly septic) shock requiring renal replacement therapy

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From a recent post hoc analysis of the Angiotensin II for the Treatment of High-Output Shock 3 trial published in Critical Ca...
Friday, March 08, 2019

Health care team members’ perceptions and attitudes about emergency only hemodialysis (EOHD)

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Concerns for what we today refer to as social justice seemed to dominate the responses in this small qualitative study .  
Thursday, January 10, 2019

Inappropriate medication use in older patients with renal disease

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It was found to be common in this systematic review .
Saturday, September 22, 2018

Anticoagulant nephropathy: is it unique to warfarin?

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Probably not but it is at least worse with warfarin. Here’s the latest comparative study . The reason? Although all antico...
Monday, September 10, 2018

Tamsulosin and passage of renal stones

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No significant benefit in a randomized trial .
Monday, June 04, 2018

ECG changes in hyperkalemia predict outcomes

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From a recent report : Methods We collected records of all adult patients with potassium (K+) greater than o...
Sunday, May 20, 2018

The Winters formula and the thumb rule

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The Winters formula is used to assess the appropriateness of the pCO2 response to metabolic acidosis (and thus determine whet...
Friday, May 11, 2018

Hypokalemia

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Free full text review .
Monday, April 16, 2018

Hyper- and hypokalemia in the ER

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From a recent study : Conclusion Hyperkalemia or hypokalemia occur in 1 of 11 ED patients and are associated...
Monday, March 12, 2018

Magnesium levels in critically ill patients: another case of less is more?

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From the green journal : Methods A consecutive 8498 patients admitted to the Mayo Clinic Hospital—Rochester...
Wednesday, February 21, 2018

Raising magnesium awareness

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George Lundberg at Medscape .