Nephrology

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Since free light chains are removed by dialysis and SPEP can also be impacted, is there a reliable way to monitor patients with ESRD and MM?

KEYNOTE-564 required CrCl 30 or above. Not having a baseline/stable CrCl may make it difficult to diagnose or treat IO nephritis. 

Do you insist on ambulatory/home blood pressures to rule in/out white coat hypertension? Does your practice have a system to log patients' BPs to supp...

If there are light chain deposits on the kidney, is that conclusive of MGRS?

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

- Dialysis catheter used for hemodialysis- RIJ thrombus in dialysis catheter was incidentally found- Patient asymptomatic with no prior history of VTE...


Papers discussed in this category


PLoS One, 2021 Apr 08

Am J Kidney Dis, 2019 Aug 05

Transplantation reviews (Orlando, Fla.), 2021 Jun 24

Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine, 2020 Jan 10

Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine, 2023 Jun 08

Cancer, 2017-06-01

N Engl J Med,

Cancers, 2022 May 17

International journal of urology : official journal of the Japanese Urological Association, 2023 Jun 06

Oncology research, 2018-04-10

Balkan journal of medical genetics : BJMG, 2023 May 02

Journal for immunotherapy of cancer, 2020 Oct

Kidney international, 2018-07

BMC nephrology, 2019-02-14