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Nephgirlsketches @nephgirlsketch.bsky.social · 12h

I kinda feel like I’d missing out on a lot by not attending Kidney Week 2025, but I really, really don’t want to go to the US anytime soon.

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Rolando Claure @runningkidneys.bsky.social · 5d

🌿 Herbal medicine: tradition… but also risk.
Some plants are nephrotoxic and can injure the kidneys.

📖 In Tropical Nephrology 2025, we review mechanisms of kidney injury linked to medicinal plants.

🔗 link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

#Nephrology #TropicalMedicine #KidneyHealth

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 9d

“When you die, it is either the end of everything – you are gone, snuffed out, finished, or there is something. I happen to believe there is something – so I can’t think of a more exciting adventure than finding out what the something is.” - Jane Goodall www.ft.com/content/9600...

‘You must not give up’: the last testament of Jane Goodall

The conservationist, who died yesterday, led a 65-year fight to raise eco awareness. She gave the Financial Times one of her final interviews

www.ft.com

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Nephgirlsketches @nephgirlsketch.bsky.social · 20d

It will be available in the GlomCon Philippines Website soon!

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Nephgirlsketches @nephgirlsketch.bsky.social · 20d

Stayed home today and decided to do some art.

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Nephgirlsketches @nephgirlsketch.bsky.social · 20d

There are protests against corruption going on all over our country today. I cannot go (long story), but I stand in solidarity with them.

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Stanford Department of Medicine @stanforddeptmed.bsky.social · Aug 29

#Nephrology faces a shrinking workforce & burnout crisis, but also a chance to transform. #StanDOM's Glenn Chertow highlights the opportunity. bit.ly/479LPBT

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Nephgirlsketches @nephgirlsketch.bsky.social · Aug 26

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Nephgirlsketches @nephgirlsketch.bsky.social · Aug 21

So excited for this, @glombandit.bsky.social !

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brookswalsh @brookswalsh.bsky.social · Aug 18

"Patients with severe HTN without evidence of acute target organ damage (previously called hypertensive urgency) should NOT have aggressive BP lowering in the short-term or be given parenteral anti-HTN drug therapy."
(my caps)
New 2025 AHA HTN guidelines!
share.google/2Xc7UFRimn2A...

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Antihypertensive drug treatment should be used with extreme caution in hospitalized patients with asymptomatic severe hypertension because spontaneous falls in BP without any antihypertensive agents occur commonly, at a rate of 40% to 50%.10 Observational studies have shown that initiation or intermittent use of additional IV or oral antihypertensive medications in patients hospitalized for noncardiac conditions are associated with increased risk of in-hospital mortality, AKI, and prolonged hospital stay.8,11 Asymptomatic patients with severe hypertension can be treated with careful and frequent monitoring using standing medications and avoiding as-needed medications

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Nephgirlsketches @nephgirlsketch.bsky.social · Aug 16

I see quite a few expats in my clinic and those who are on Hydralazine are almost always from the US. I mean, WHY?

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Nephgirlsketches @nephgirlsketch.bsky.social · Aug 15

It’s been a while. And I wanted to try something new.
#kidneyart #nephsky

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Nephgirlsketches @nephgirlsketch.bsky.social · Aug 15

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Nephgirlsketches @nephgirlsketch.bsky.social · Aug 15

Some clinic days just suck the life out of me.

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Nephgirlsketches @nephgirlsketch.bsky.social · Aug 15

Lost my mojo for a while. This one’s not finished yet, but I just felt like posting.
#kidneyart #nephrology #artsky

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Arkana Labs @arkanalabs.bsky.social · Aug 11

Based on the image provided, what would be your leading diagnosis with C3-dominant immune-complex deposition?

#DiagnoseThis #pathology #renal #kidneypath #pathx #pathsky

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💉Josh Rubin, MD @drsandman11.medsky.social · Aug 2

Patient’s potassium result was too low

Fired the lab manager

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American Journal of Kidney Diseases @ajkd.bsky.social · Jul 26

#Quiz from January 2022:

A 57-year-old woman presented with severe hypokalemia; the electrocardiogram showed sinus arrhythmia, flattened T waves, and prolonged QT interval of 667ms.

How should this patient be treated?

bit.ly/3pFr8au (FREE)

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Nephgirlsketches @nephgirlsketch.bsky.social · Jul 25

Renal fellow caught vacuolar casts in a patient with PV, RPGN, CHONuria of 13g/d.
#urinoscopy #urinesediments #nephrology

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J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · Jul 19

Get. Vaccinated.

"Among patients hospitalized with COVID and acute kidney injury (AKI), unvaccinated individuals had longer hospital stays, more frequent need for continuous renal replacement therapy, higher dependence on dialysis at discharge, and substantially...

www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

Vaccination Tied to Better Survival in COVID-Linked AKI

Patients hospitalized with COVID-linked acute kidney injury are more likely to survive if they are vaccinated than if they are not, a recent study suggests.

www.medscape.com

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Jul 18

Breaking news: “The Late Show” with Stephen Colbert will end in May 2026, CBS said in a statement.

The announcement came days after Colbert spoke out against the $16 million paid earlier this month by Paramount, the parent company of CBS News.

Stephen Colbert’s ‘Late Show’ canceled by CBS, to end in May 2026

CBS said in a statement that it was “purely a financial decision.” The show launched with Colbert as host, executive producer and writer a decade ago.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Nephgirlsketches @nephgirlsketch.bsky.social · Jul 15

Nope they really did mean to call Neuro first before Nephro! 😱

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Nephgirlsketches @nephgirlsketch.bsky.social · Jul 15

Elderly px with NSTEMI, +worsening azotemia and oliguria.

Resident to AP: Refer #Nephrology?

AP: Not yet.

Hosp D6: +asterexis, dec sensorium.

AP: Refer to Neurology

Hosp D7: Neuro rpts labs. BUN 92, crea 10.4
Neuro Dx: Uremic Enceph

Neuro Plans: Refer to Nephrology.
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Nephgirlsketches @nephgirlsketch.bsky.social · Jul 15

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Nephgirlsketches @nephgirlsketch.bsky.social · Jul 15

Intraop px has 1L bld loss and hypotension. Immediately given several doses of NSAIDs x 3 days. Crea inc fr 1.3 to 4.2. No #nephrology referral done.

They rpt crea the next day. Now 6.4. They FINALLY call me.

Px gets mad b/c of extra cost & delayed discharge.

#Ortho then blames nephrologist. 🤯

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