General Internal Medicine

Onconephrology

Questions discussed in this category

Do you recommend holding ACE inhibitors, ARBs, and SGLT2 inhibitors for patients with chronic kidney disease and malignancy who are about to start high-dose intravenous methotrexate?

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Do you prefer monitoring creatinine over cystatin C levels in patients with lymphoma and chronic kidney disease given the potential for cystatin C levels to be increased with certain malignancies?

Hammouda et al., PMID 28282874

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Do you prefer assessing cystatin C or creatinine when monitoring a patient’s eGFR who is receiving chemotherapy for malignancy?

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What is the management strategy for patients who develop AKI and nephrotic range proteinuria secondary to biopsy proven FSGS during immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy?

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Do you recommend a kidney biopsy for patients who develop acute kidney injury after starting sacituzumab?

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Do you consider hyperuricemia as a potential etiology of an anion gap metabolic acidosis in patients with elevated uric acid levels and no other readily explainable causes of acidosis?

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Are there preventative measures that you take in your cancer patients with chronic kidney disease who require periodic iodinated contrast CT studies for monitoring of their malignancy?

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Do you recommend a kidney biopsy in a patient with myelodysplastic syndrome diagnosed two years prior who develops new onset proteinuria?

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What factors should prompt a kidney biopsy to evaluate for monoclonal gammopathy of renal significance in a patient with MGUS and suspected chronic diabetic nephropathy?

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How do you manage hyponatremia in patients with renal cell carcinoma on cabozantinib and nivolumab?

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When do you perform a kidney biopsy in a patient with AKI that is thought to be related to an immune checkpoint inhibitor?

Do you wait to monitor response to empiric corticosteroids before pursuing a kidney biopsy?

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Papers discussed in this category

Kidney international reports, 2021 Jan 06

Spectrum of Kidney Involvement in Patients with Myelodysplastic Syndromes.

Journal for immunotherapy of cancer, 2020 Oct

Immune checkpoint inhibitor associated reactivation of primary membranous nephropathy responsive to rituximab.

Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN, 2024 Jun 07

Assessment of Glomerular Filtration Rate in Patients with Cancer: A Statement from the American Society of Onco-Nephrology.

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