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Sarah Sanghavi

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Intensivist, Nephrologist @uwnephrology.bsky.social | Via UT Austin, UTSW, WashU, and Mt. Sinai | Views mine https://nephrology.uw.edu/people/faculty/sanghavi-s #nephsky #medsky

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Sarah Sanghavi @sarahsanghavi.bsky.social · Nov 13

I think it's still early enough to do the greatest hits, so here's an updated version for 2024.

Sorry if I satirized your life's work. Original by @xkcd.com.
#Nephsky

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Sarah Sanghavi @sarahsanghavi.bsky.social · 3h

Best line: “Haribo declined to comment when approached by the BBC.”

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ASNKidney @asnkidney.bsky.social · 1d

📢 Now available: the 12th annual ASN Nephrology Fellow Survey. This year’s report highlights salaries, job search experiences, and the demographics of those entering the field. In 2025, adult fellows reported a 4% increase in starting pay. 📊

🔗 https://bit.ly/4pV5FYl

ASN Data

Insights from the 12th Annual ASN Nephrology Fellow Survey

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Sarah Sanghavi @sarahsanghavi.bsky.social · 1d

Me too! It's crazy how heterogenous the phenotypes can be despite having the same pathophysiology. At least, as we currently understand it.

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Sarah Sanghavi @sarahsanghavi.bsky.social · 1d

So glad the hepatorenal expert agrees with it! 😊

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Juan Carlos Q Vélez, MD @juancarlosqvelez.bsky.social · 1d

Bold much-needed perspective by @sarahsanghavi.bsky.social et al about revisiting TIPS in the context of kidney disease, particularly in some cases of #HRS at #Kidney360 journals.lww.com/kidney360/ab...

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The Athletic @theathletic.com · 2d

A Mariners fan’s shirt said, ‘Dump 61 here.’

So Cal Raleigh obliged — and the fan unveiled a second surprise ⤵️

http://dlvr.it/TNYJyN

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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 3d

"Never before have we issued a joint public warning like this."

The latest from former U.S. surgeons general Jerome Adams, Richard Carmona, Joycelyn Elders, Vivek Murthy, Antonia Novello and David Satcher:

Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.

We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

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@IM_Crit_ @imcrit.bsky.social · 14d

#foamed #medsky #emimcc

Next week: how to manage the airway of a crashing critically ill patient with RV failure and severe ARDS

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Sarah Sanghavi @sarahsanghavi.bsky.social · 16d

I don’t know why, but I love it!

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Swapnil Hiremath 🍁🇨🇦 @hswapnil.medsky.social · Sep 4

Interesting pilot/feasibility trial in @kireports.bsky.social

Decremental dialysis in elderly patients with small inter dialytic weight gains - going from 3 to 2x week HD. Easy to recruit, good adherence.

www.kireports.org/article/S246...

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Sarah Sanghavi @sarahsanghavi.bsky.social · Aug 28

www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Federal agents arrest firefighters working on WA wildfire

Federal agents showed up northeast of Lake Cushman to check identification of crew members fighting Washington's largest active wildfire.

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Melissa Knox @mknox.bsky.social · Aug 20

So happy to be able to share my article on Seattle’s Fresh Bucks program! FB is a $40/month benefit that can be spent on fresh fruits and vegetables at all local Safeways, farmers markets, and some smaller grocers. It requires *no* SNAP enrollment and *no* matched spending… 🧵1/7

JAMA Network Open @jamanetworkopen.com · Aug 19

Seattle’s $40/month health food voucher program was associated with increased food security, and increased fruit and vegetable consumption among low-income residents. ja.ma/41asI6W

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JAMA @jama.com · Aug 16

Most viewed this week from JAMA: In patients with salvageable brain tissue identified by perfusion imaging who did not initially receive thrombectomy, alteplase given 4.5 to 24 hours after acute ischemic #stroke onset may improve functional outcomes.

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Figure 2. Distribution of Modified Rankin Scale Scores at 90 Days

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Jay R. Seltzer, MD @jrseltzer.bsky.social · Aug 16

Acanthocyte - phase contrast (original mag x400) - from patient with hydralazine-induced vasculitis #UrineMicroscopy #UrinarySediment

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Jordy Cohen @jordybc.bsky.social · Aug 14

Adding the Hypertension journsl link!

www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...

American Heart Association Journals

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Jordy Cohen @jordybc.bsky.social · Aug 14

4) Stronger recs for home BP monitoring
5) Same BP goals and treatment initiation thresholds, now with PREVENT score to help guide initiation and with some nudges to consider going for an SBP <120 when tolerated
6) No more race-base recs

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Jordy Cohen @jordybc.bsky.social · Aug 14

New 2025 AHA/ACC Hypertension Guideline dropped!

www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/...

#hypertension #medsky #nephsky

2025 AHA/ACC/AANP/AAPA/ABC/ACCP/ACPM/AGS/AMA/ASPC/NMA/PCNA/SGIM Guideline for the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Management of High Blood Pressure in Adults: A Report of the American College o...

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Antibiotic Steward 🅱️C🆔🅿️🌟 @absteward.bsky.social · Aug 11

International guidelines recommend 5 to 7 days of antibiotic prophylaxis for patients with cirrhosis & upper GI bleeding.
🆕🔥Systematic Review ( 14 RCTs, N=1322) & Bayesian Meta-Analysis challenged this universally held dogma #idsky
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Prophylactic Antibiotics for Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding in Patients With Cirrhosis

This systematic review and meta-analysis evaluates the evidence supporting the current guidelines antibiotic prophylaxis use in patients with cirrhosis and upper gastrointestinal bleeding.

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Swapnil Hiremath 🍁🇨🇦 @hswapnil.medsky.social · Jul 31

Vitamin R + Cyclophosohamide in ANCA vasculitis

A case series from Edinburgh suggesting this allows faster steroid withdrawal?

@kireports.bsky.social www.kireports.org/article/S246...

#NephSky #Vasculitis

Figure 2 (a) Kidney response to treatment. Scatter plots of individual change in eGFR at 12 months versus baseline eGFR, stratified by duration of glucocorticoid therapy, and (b) individual change in uPCR at 12 months versus baseline uPCR for the whole cohort. r values are Pearson coefficients. Alluvial plots demonstrating change in AAV classification from initial biopsy to interval biopsy (n = 19) for (c) Berden classification, and (d) ANCA Kidney Risk Score. AAV, antineutrophil cytoplasm antibody-associated vasculitis; ANCA, antineutrophil cytoplasm antibody; eGFR, estimated glomerular filtration rate; uPCR, urinary protein-to-creatinine ratio.

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UW Nephrology @uwnephrology.bsky.social · Aug 8

We are excited to kick off the new academic year with a #womeninnephrology event and welcome our new #nephrology fellows, Erin, Hanna, Heba, and Jessica to our WIN community @uwmedicine.bsky.social! #kidney #healthcare #research #nephsky #WomenInMedicine #AcademicLife

Group photo of women in the nephrology division.

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Sarah Sanghavi @sarahsanghavi.bsky.social · Aug 7

Sorry, I had the creatinine wrong. She corrected me that it was 1.7, and there were about 20 of these things.

Sarah Sanghavi @sarahsanghavi.bsky.social · Aug 7

Thanks for the consult! She said they didn’t polarize. It was fellows clinic, so they routinely spin urine.

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Sarah Sanghavi @sarahsanghavi.bsky.social · Aug 6

Question for #nephsky #askrenal. Friend found these casts in a patient with multiple myeloma- Cr 0.8 and UPCR 0.1 g/g. They don’t look like typical hyaline casts. Any thoughts? @juancarlosqvelez.bsky.social @jrseltzer.bsky.social

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MSNBC @msnbc.com · Aug 3

BREAKING: Texas Democrats head to Illinois to deny Republicans a quorum on redistricting

Texas Democrats head to Illinois to deny Republicans a quorum on redistricting

In an extraordinary move brokered with Illinois Gov. Pritzker, dozens of Texas House Democrats move to deny quorum as the GOP is set to draw new maps.

www.nbcnews.com

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UW Nephrology @uwnephrology.bsky.social · Jul 28

New Fellow Welcome Dinner!! @uwnephrology.bsky.social @uwmedicine.bsky.social #kidney #Seattle #nephsky #nephfellows 🫘🌲🩺😊

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