Professor of Medicine Loyola University of Chicago Medical Center Maywood, Il Associate Chief of Staff for Clinical Affairs Veterans Administration Hospital Hines, Il
1. How Is the Urinalysis Helpful in Patients with Kidney Disease? 2. How Should Changes in Plasma Creatinine Be Interpreted? 3. What Is a Fractional Excretion (and How Does Measuring It Help in Clinical Practice)? 4. What Is the Urine Albumin to Creatinine Ratio? (Or Is It Protein to Creatinine Ratio?) 5. What Is the Meaning of the Urine to Plasma Creatinine Ratio? 6. Is It Helpful to Diagnose a Triple Acid-base Disturbance? (Or Is It Just a Mental Exercise?) 7. Why Are Disorders of Sodium Concentration so Difficult? 8. What Is Free Water Clearance and How Useful Is It? 9. How Does One Interpret the Urine Anion Gap and Urine Osmolal Gap? 10. Is It “Acute Renal Failure” or “Acute Kidney Injury”? 11. What Exactly Is Dialysis and When Is It Needed? 12. When Does Metabolic Acidosis Require Treatment with Bicarbonate? 13. Is There Any Advantage to Colloids Vs. Crystalloids for Volume Repletion? 14. Is Computed Tomography (CT) with Contrast or Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) with Contrast Preferred in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease? 15. Is There a Risk to Rapidly Lowering the Plasma Potassium in Patients with Hyperkalemia? 16. Should Calcium-based Phosphate Binders Be Used in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease? 17. Which Renal Cysts Require Follow-up Evaluation? 18. Are Renin Angiotensin Aldosterone System Blockers Friends or Foes of the Kidneys? 19. Does a Patient with a Mild Decrease in Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate (eGFR) Really Have a Disease? 20. Why Are Kidney Stones a Nephrologic As Well As A Urologic Disease?
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