Category Archives: nephrology

Hemodialysis Update

Written by Neil Kurtzman | 26th November 2010

Tweet Two new articles discuss important aspects of hemodialysis in the US. One is in the lay press, the other in the New England Journal. The lay article, in the Atlantic Magazine, is an exercise in yellow journalism. If you or someone in your family needs dialysis it will scare you to death – perhaps…


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Acute Kidney Injury and Clinical Outcomes

Written by Neil Kurtzman | 10th May 2009

Tweet A paper in the Mayo Clinic Proceedings, Acute Kidney Injury Predicts Outcomes of Non–Critically Ill Patients, examines the effect of Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) on the clinical out comes almost 6000 patients at a community teaching hospital affiliated with Yale. AKI was deined as an increase in serum creatinine of at least 0.3mg/dL over…


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Bicarbonate Therapy in Severe Metabolic Acidosis

Written by Neil Kurtzman | 9th March 2008

Tweet This is a PowerPoint presentation of a talk given at the annual meeting of the Southern Society for Clinical Investigation – February 23, 2008. It can be used for any noncommercial purpose as long as the original source is acknowledged. Also listed below is a pdf file of a paper on the same subject…


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Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis

Written by Neil Kurtzman | 28th February 2008

Tweet As if the world weren’t dangerous enough new diseases keeping popping up like, well new diseases. Over the past few years nephrologists have recognized a new skin disease that was previously called nephrogenic fibrosing dermopathy, but which has been rechristened Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis. The current issue of the NEJM describes another patient with this…


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