tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-112888402009-11-23T14:37:20.974-05:00Exploring Health 2.0Joshua Schwimmer, MD, FACP, FASNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17979185526814569632noreply@blogger.comBlogger1578125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11288840.post-49345656094518970132009-11-23T14:31:00.003-05:002009-11-23T14:37:21.060-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2566/4128490102_a7d78332b4_o.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 500px; height: 500px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2566/4128490102_a7d78332b4_o.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />(Via <a href="http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=7999">Warren Ellis</a>, who is British. And not entirely sane.)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11288840-4934565609451897013?l=www.kidneynotes.com' alt='' /></div>Joshua Schwimmer, MD, FACP, FASNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17979185526814569632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11288840.post-80752259340535952612009-11-21T14:31:00.001-05:002009-11-21T14:31:53.612-05:00"An antimicrobial tie with a graphic design based on the H1N1 virus." <a href="http://ping.fm/sTbMN">http://ping.fm/sTbMN</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11288840-8075225934053595261?l=www.kidneynotes.com' alt='' /></div>Joshua Schwimmer, MD, FACP, FASNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17979185526814569632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11288840.post-29691682813552480582009-11-21T11:54:00.001-05:002009-11-21T11:54:50.976-05:00"Something Something Social Media: The Overdue Minority Report" by Merlin Mann (@hotdogsladies) <a href="http://bit.ly/7sKelo">http://bit.ly/7sKelo</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11288840-2969168281355248058?l=www.kidneynotes.com' alt='' /></div>Joshua Schwimmer, MD, FACP, FASNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17979185526814569632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11288840.post-55600919568578413892009-11-21T11:15:00.003-05:002009-11-21T11:19:38.972-05:00<img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6HaEfmmfTxc/SwbM99-Cs_I/AAAAAAAAADQ/OYmxE-QGVfA/s320/AN.jpg" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 207px;" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406233767683732466" border="0" /> "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left;">Anyway, after some probing, he admitted to taking a drug called Vanquish regularly (i.e. daily for over 20 years). I had to look it up, but it turns out to be a compound analgesic (acetaminophen, aspirin and caffeine). I was surprised, as I thought these compounds were off the market, as they are in Europe. So beware,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/338/7/446" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 153);">analgesic nephropathy</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is alive and well in 2009!</span></span>" — <a href="http://renalfellow.blogspot.com/2009/11/analgesic-nephropathy.html">The Renal Fellow Network</a><br /> <div style="margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;" class="zemanta-pixie"><img style="border: medium none ; float: right;" class="zemanta-pixie-img" alt="" src="http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=d957e421-625b-4eb5-a8ab-8ba3bb82c019" /><span class="zem-script more-related pretty-attribution"><script type="text/javascript" src="http://static.zemanta.com/readside/loader.js" defer="defer"></script></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11288840-5560091956857841389?l=www.kidneynotes.com' alt='' /></div>Joshua Schwimmer, MD, FACP, FASNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17979185526814569632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11288840.post-75143764932103235442009-11-19T23:01:00.001-05:002009-11-19T23:01:58.976-05:00“Health gets personal in the cloud <a href="http://ping.fm/Ssbfn">http://ping.fm/Ssbfn</a> ” -@symtym<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11288840-7514376493210323544?l=www.kidneynotes.com' alt='' /></div>Joshua Schwimmer, MD, FACP, FASNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17979185526814569632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11288840.post-38612104041021089472009-11-19T10:20:00.001-05:002009-11-19T10:20:37.888-05:00"Google just released a new research study on how physicians use the Internet. <a href="http://tr.im/FfNp">http://tr.im/FfNp</a> ” -@skypen<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11288840-3861210404102108947?l=www.kidneynotes.com' alt='' /></div>Joshua Schwimmer, MD, FACP, FASNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17979185526814569632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11288840.post-13523054420295788612009-11-15T15:33:00.001-05:002009-11-15T15:33:30.955-05:00Adventures in Brain Tumors, by Matt Haughey (@mathowie). <a href="http://bit.ly/37DMa4">http://bit.ly/37DMa4</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11288840-1352305442029578861?l=www.kidneynotes.com' alt='' /></div>Joshua Schwimmer, MD, FACP, FASNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17979185526814569632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11288840.post-72939084893411234262009-11-14T19:10:00.001-05:002009-11-14T19:10:03.472-05:00Merlin Mann blogs about Marco Arment, both of whom I like. A lot. <a href="http://ping.fm/uDpHP">http://ping.fm/uDpHP</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11288840-7293908489341123426?l=www.kidneynotes.com' alt='' /></div>Joshua Schwimmer, MD, FACP, FASNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17979185526814569632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11288840.post-7663296754654879412009-11-10T13:47:00.002-05:002009-11-14T12:34:16.653-05:00“Find locations near you for both the seasonal and H1N1 flu vaccine <a href="http://bit.ly/4nOr53%E2%80%9D">http://bit.ly/4nOr53</a>" -@google<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11288840-766329675465487941?l=www.kidneynotes.com' alt='' /></div>Joshua Schwimmer, MD, FACP, FASNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17979185526814569632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11288840.post-85596969590590404462009-11-07T12:27:00.001-05:002009-11-07T12:27:59.046-05:00Today's xkcd (my favorite webcomic): "Organ Donor." <a href="http://xkcd.com/659/">http://xkcd.com/659/</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11288840-8559696959059040446?l=www.kidneynotes.com' alt='' /></div>Joshua Schwimmer, MD, FACP, FASNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17979185526814569632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11288840.post-72636375964941373482009-11-07T00:03:00.001-05:002009-11-07T00:03:40.107-05:00<style type="text/css">.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: center; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }</style><div class="flickr-frame"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse/4075439686/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2540/4075439686_b2d187f5bd.jpg" class="flickr-photo" alt="" /></a><br /> <span class="flickr-caption"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse/4075439686/">P103109PS-0527</a>, originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/whitehouse/">The White House</a>.</span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11288840-7263637596494137348?l=www.kidneynotes.com' alt='' /></div>Joshua Schwimmer, MD, FACP, FASNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17979185526814569632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11288840.post-91611522865514864512009-11-06T19:40:00.001-05:002009-11-06T19:40:13.603-05:00"If Health Care Is Going to Change, Dr. Brent James's Ideas Will Change It" - NYT <a href="http://ping.fm/jrz8Y">http://ping.fm/jrz8Y</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11288840-9161152286551486451?l=www.kidneynotes.com' alt='' /></div>Joshua Schwimmer, MD, FACP, FASNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17979185526814569632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11288840.post-51228663736293799842009-11-05T09:27:00.001-05:002009-11-05T09:27:34.179-05:00Receiving the H1N1 nasal vaccine is anticlimactic. "Flu nasal drowning" was a misnomer.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11288840-5122866373629379984?l=www.kidneynotes.com' alt='' /></div>Joshua Schwimmer, MD, FACP, FASNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17979185526814569632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11288840.post-82616610887311534082009-11-04T23:05:00.002-05:002009-11-04T23:08:21.673-05:00<blockquote><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__AuwUApfRb4/SvDBO2qDU-I/AAAAAAAAF7k/dMWzX5GuDj4/s400/Picture+2.png" style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 222px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5400028414151447522" /></blockquote><blockquote>The uroplakins form tiny, hexagonal arrays of particles--visualized best by electron microscopy (see figure taken from this excellent recent KI review by Wu et al)--which comprise structures called "urothelial plaques" that overlie the plasma membrane of superficial umbrella cells of the urothelium...</blockquote>Read more <a href="http://http//renalfellow.blogspot.com/2009/11/uroplakins.html">here</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11288840-8261661088731153408?l=www.kidneynotes.com' alt='' /></div>Joshua Schwimmer, MD, FACP, FASNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17979185526814569632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11288840.post-25549869373251250422009-11-04T23:02:00.001-05:002009-11-04T23:02:01.829-05:00Amazon Best Books of 2009: <a href="http://ping.fm/soOWG">http://ping.fm/soOWG</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11288840-2554986937325125042?l=www.kidneynotes.com' alt='' /></div>Joshua Schwimmer, MD, FACP, FASNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17979185526814569632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11288840.post-6372574087711400512009-11-04T22:48:00.001-05:002009-11-04T22:48:56.629-05:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif, 'Arial Unicode MS'; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><a href="http://bestc.am/LUN5" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(28, 81, 168); "><img src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/cjapps/images/114168/iphone.jpg" /> </a><br /><p>Credit: Baard Overgaard Hansen <a href="http://www.pixum.com" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(28, 81, 168); ">http://www.pixum.com</a></p><p><a href="http://bestc.am/LUN5" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(28, 81, 168); ">http://bestc.am/LUN5</a></p></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11288840-637257408771140051?l=www.kidneynotes.com' alt='' /></div>Joshua Schwimmer, MD, FACP, FASNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17979185526814569632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11288840.post-4914604779302574942009-10-30T11:01:00.001-04:002009-10-30T11:01:54.094-04:00Bodybuilding with steroids damages kidneys. <a href="http://ping.fm/cgLJs">http://ping.fm/cgLJs</a> (One of the more unusual & controversial papers I've co-authored.)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11288840-491460477930257494?l=www.kidneynotes.com' alt='' /></div>Joshua Schwimmer, MD, FACP, FASNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17979185526814569632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11288840.post-7476274882667103712009-10-28T10:02:00.001-04:002009-10-28T10:02:39.375-04:00WolframAlpha Searches: Potassium in Lime Juice? <a href="http://ping.fm/kdW7Q">http://ping.fm/kdW7Q</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11288840-747627488266710371?l=www.kidneynotes.com' alt='' /></div>Joshua Schwimmer, MD, FACP, FASNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17979185526814569632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11288840.post-1413153225421927702009-10-27T11:24:00.001-04:002009-10-27T11:24:58.207-04:00"Does anyone have any ideas about how to reconstruct my abdomen?" Heart-wrenching necrotizing fasciitis case in NEJM. <a href="http://ping.fm/PCQHp">http://ping.fm/PCQHp</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11288840-141315322542192770?l=www.kidneynotes.com' alt='' /></div>Joshua Schwimmer, MD, FACP, FASNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17979185526814569632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11288840.post-84860863352174362262009-10-27T07:10:00.013-04:002009-10-27T08:42:04.049-04:00<p class="zemanta-img" style="margin: 1em; float: right; display: block; width: 250px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/9081047@N08/1249355975"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1104/1249355975_7cc821a7c8_m.jpg" alt="Thrombotic microangiopathy" style="border: medium none ; display: block;" /></a><span class="zemanta-img-attribution">Image by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/9081047@N08/1249355975">roboonya</a> via Flickr</span></p>Every physician has diseases they see improbably often. For me, one of these conditions is <a href="http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000510.htm">hemolytic-uremic syndrome</a>. Since writing one of my first papers on HUS as a resident — "<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12552512?dopt=Abstract">De novo thrombotic microangiopathy in renal transplant recipients</a>" — I've seen way more of it than you'd expect.<br /><br />For kidney fans, this review article on <a href="http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/361/17/1676">atypical hemolytic-uremic syndrome in this month's New England Journal of Medicine</a> (subscription required) is a must read. It details recent advances in the genetics of atypical hemolytic-uremic syndrome. What was previously a confusing mess of similar-appearing diseases — hemolytic-uremic syndrome, atypical hemolytic-uremic syndrome, drug-induced hemolytic-uremic syndrome, and thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura — may finally be understandable.<div><br /></div><div>Related: <a href="http://www.kidneydoctor.us/types-of-kidney-disease/">A List of Kidney Diseases</a><br /></div> <div style="margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;" class="zemanta-pixie"><img style="border: medium none ; float: right;" class="zemanta-pixie-img" alt="" src="http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=dde3b93e-49fa-4391-9a1b-8f5c06f13adb" /><span class="zem-script more-related pretty-attribution"><script type="text/javascript" src="http://static.zemanta.com/readside/loader.js" defer="defer"></script></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11288840-8486086335217436226?l=www.kidneynotes.com' alt='' /></div>Joshua Schwimmer, MD, FACP, FASNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17979185526814569632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11288840.post-63993324506286638792009-10-25T00:01:00.001-04:002009-10-25T00:02:29.957-04:00<embed src="http://www.npr.org/v2/?i=114025106&#38;m=114057598&#38;t=video" height="383" wmode="opaque" width="400" base="http://www.npr.org"></embed><br />Via <a href="http://http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=114075029">NPR</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11288840-6399332450628663879?l=www.kidneynotes.com' alt='' /></div>Joshua Schwimmer, MD, FACP, FASNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17979185526814569632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11288840.post-32958795375835498492009-10-21T10:22:00.001-04:002009-10-21T10:22:35.139-04:00Dr. Brad Berk, University of Rochester Medical Center CEO, discusses his spinal cord injury on YouTube: <a href="http://ping.fm/x7hp2">http://ping.fm/x7hp2</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11288840-3295879537583549849?l=www.kidneynotes.com' alt='' /></div>Joshua Schwimmer, MD, FACP, FASNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17979185526814569632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11288840.post-85817644095758030332009-10-20T14:34:00.001-04:002009-10-20T14:34:08.955-04:00David Pogue Interviews Dr. Blumenthal, US Electronic Medical Records Czar <a href="http://ping.fm/Y7t1G">http://ping.fm/Y7t1G</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11288840-8581764409575803033?l=www.kidneynotes.com' alt='' /></div>Joshua Schwimmer, MD, FACP, FASNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17979185526814569632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11288840.post-26954287405172064072009-10-14T21:38:00.001-04:002009-10-14T21:38:08.038-04:00The Electrolyte Composition of the Dead Sea. <a href="http://ping.fm/muQcP">http://ping.fm/muQcP</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11288840-2695428740517206407?l=www.kidneynotes.com' alt='' /></div>Joshua Schwimmer, MD, FACP, FASNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17979185526814569632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11288840.post-5940217254218117972009-10-12T14:42:00.003-04:002009-10-12T15:08:02.111-04:00<p class="zemanta-img" style="margin: 1em; float: right; display: block; width: 209px;"><a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Illu_kidney.jpg"><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Illu_kidney.jpg/300px-Illu_kidney.jpg" alt="Picture of kidney" style="border: medium none ; display: block; width: 199px; height: 163px;" /></a><span class="zemanta-img-attribution">Image via <a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Illu_kidney.jpg">Wikipedia</a></span></p>I've updated the <a href="http://www.kidneydoctor.us/types-of-kidney-disease">list of kidney diseases for patients</a>. Please let me know if I missed anything.<br /><br /> <div style="margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;" class="zemanta-pixie"><img style="border: medium none ; float: right;" class="zemanta-pixie-img" alt="" src="http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=2bede897-f5eb-4dff-9a5e-f8310613bd79" /><span class="zem-script more-related pretty-attribution"><script type="text/javascript" src="http://static.zemanta.com/readside/loader.js" defer="defer"></script></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11288840-594021725421811797?l=www.kidneynotes.com' alt='' /></div>Joshua Schwimmer, MD, FACP, FASNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17979185526814569632noreply@blogger.com0