nephSAP: Volume 10
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The medical community is aware of the "aging crisis" that is confronting society as it enters the 21st century. As early as the 1960s, the importance of training health care professionals in geriatrics was recognized (1).
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Volume 10, Number 1, January 2011
Geriatric Nephrology
Dimitrios G. Oreopoulos, MD, PhD, Vanita Jassal, MD, Ann M. O'Hare, MD, Mitchell H. Rosner, MD, Mark A. Swidler, MD, Jocelyn Wiggins, BM, BCh, Mark E. Williams, MD, and Richard J. Glassock, MD
AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
The medical community is aware of the "aging crisis" that is confronting society as it enters the 21st century. As early as the 1960s, the importance of training health care professionals in geriatrics was recognized (1)....
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Metabolic alkalosis (MA) has multiple causes, some associated with volume contraction and some with volume expansion (1). Moreover, volume contraction, particularly when severe, is usually associated with lactic
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Volume 10, Number 2, March 2011
Fluid, Electrolyte, and Acid-Base Disturbances
Richard H. Sterns, MD, and Michael Emmett, MD
AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
Metabolic alkalosis (MA) has multiple causes, some associated with volume contraction and some with volume expansion (1). Moreover, volume contraction, particularly when severe, is usually associated with lactic...
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The past 15 years have seen a virtual explosion of scientific literature in the field of intra-abdominal hypertension (IAH) and abdominal compartment syndrome (ACS). All this scholarly work, however, has appeared almost exclusively in surgical and critica
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Volume 10, Number 3, May 2011
Acute Kidney Injury and Critical Care Nephrology
Patrick T. Murray, MD, and Kathleen D. Liu, MD
AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
The past 15 years have seen a virtual explosion of scientific literature in the field of intra-abdominal hypertension (IAH) and abdominal compartment syndrome (ACS). All this scholarly work, however, has appeared almost exclusively in surgical and critica...
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Optimally, problem-based learning simulates authentic cases found in the practice of clinical medicine. This approach to learning promotes analytical and evaluative thinking while emphasizing new information essential for understanding complex concepts.
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Volume 10, Number 4, July 2011
Renal Pathology
Glen S. Markowitz, MD, Barry Stokes, MD, Neeraja Kambham, MD, Leal C. Herlitz, MD, and Vivette D. D'Agati, MD
AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
Optimally, problem-based learning simulates authentic cases found in the practice of clinical medicine. This approach to learning promotes analytical and evaluative thinking while emphasizing new information essential for understanding complex concepts....
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For more than 25 years, it has been recognized that renin angiotensin system (RAS) blockade, as part of an effective blood pressure (BP) lowering strategy, reduces the rate of progression of kidney disease in patients with and without diabetes (1– 4).
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Volume 10, Number 5, September 2011
Chronic Kidney Disease and Progression
Linda F. Fried, MD, and Michael J. Choi, MD
AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
For more than 25 years, it has been recognized that renin angiotensin system (RAS) blockade, as part of an effective blood pressure (BP) lowering strategy, reduces the rate of progression of kidney disease in patients with and without diabetes (1– 4)....
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Kidney paired donation (KPD), the exchange of kidneys from living donors, deemed by virtue of blood group or histocompatability criteria to be incompatible to their intended or designated recipients, was first proposed by one of the founding fathers of mo
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Volume 10, Number 6, November 2011
Transplantation
John P. Vella, MD, and David J. Cohen, MD
AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
Kidney paired donation (KPD), the exchange of kidneys from living donors, deemed by virtue of blood group or histocompatability criteria to be incompatible to their intended or designated recipients, was first proposed by one of the founding fathers of mo...