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I love video games. Growing up the the 90s meant the magic of Mario, Donkey Kong and Zelda. Now social media has replaced Super Nintendo and whilst a large portion of my twitter feed is dedicated to nephrology there is an equally large portion dedicated to gaming and the culture which has grown up around […]

‘Size and Flow Matter’ – Memoir of an AV fistula

My name is Fistulus Magnus. I came to this world a decade ago, by the hands of a very skilled surgeon, who anastomosed my host’s brachial artery to his cephalic vein. My host’s name is Mr. Hohf. I take a lot of pride in having served Mr. Hohf diligently over the years. He unfortunately suffers […]

#NephPath – The Tubulointerstitium

NephPath 101 – Understanding the tubulointerstitium. – by NSMC2019 intern and nephro-pathologist Vighnesh Walavalkar. Check out the original post on Renal Fellow Network Excerpt – The tubulointerstitium of the kidney is broadly divided into the cortex and the medulla. These are extremely important components of the kidney, which can show a broad spectrum of changes ranging […]

DNAJB9: Demystifying Fibrillary Glomerulonephritis

Fibrillary glomerulonephritis (GN) is a rare disease which accounts for about 1% of all kidney biopsies. The very first description of the disease was published by Rosenmann and Eliakim in 1977. They described a patient with nephrotic syndrome due to deposition of what they describe as “an amyloid-like material in the glomeruli,” but upon ultrastructural analysis, this material […]

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