Joel M. Topf, MD FACP
Saying the product of the kidneys is urine is like saying the product of a factory is pollution. Urine is a by-product. The product is homeostasis COI: linkππΌ
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You have a patient who is fluid overloaded. What is more effective at correcting the overload, removing a liter of fluid with dialysis or removing a liter of fluid with loop diuret...
I was teaching third year medical students about acute kidney injury and the lecture begins with a brief history of extracorporeal dialysis for AKI. I asked a student what extracor...
My talk at #ApExPathshala on #AcidBase had some new (to me information) on urine anion gap. I want to share it but to get there we need to discuss renal acid handling. #Tweetorial...
Pseudohyperkalemia Serum potassium is higher than plasma potassium. #NKFClinicals https://t.co/T2PfT7bhHi
Never in the history of medicine has so much been done, by so many, so incompetently, with so little consequence as in the treatment of severe hyponatremia. #Tweetorial 1/10 https...
The begining of my medical career was dominated by HIV Start med school in 91. Magic Johnson announces he is HIV+ MS3 med students do blood draws on HIV+ patients (phlebotomy ref...
In this week's @Curbsiders there was some disagreement in how many times I have been a guest (episode #384 was my 20th appearance). Here is a tweetorial with the definitive count:
#NephMadness is here and you can get all the #FOAMed through your ears with the NephMadness PodCrawl. The first stop in the crawl has dropped (https://t.co/cqCamkt6kZ) Watch fo...
Lunch time lecture by @Amyloid_Planet. He works for shawarma. https://t.co/PzaOaTPIEB
When calculate the fractional excretion you are supposed to multiply the serum Mg by 0.7 since 30% of Mg is not filtered as it is bound to albumin. Looks like most calculators fail...
@Kidneys1st @GarySingerMD @ACPinternists please share that data about residual renal function
The deadline for applications to the NSMC has been extended until this Friday. The reason (besides the fact that we always extend the deadline) is that applications are down this y...