A pinch of salt - A podcast by ERA

I don’t know how it is with you, but lupus has always been the disease that I hated the most. However, IgA nephropathy must be the one that I’m most frustrated about. Primarily, because I feel like there’s nothing I can do about it like I’m some kind of fraud just waiting for the patient to figure it all out and see straight through my incompetence. If you’re struggling w

Is it itching you to know more about CKD-associated pruritus? Do not worry! ERA is there for you!Can you imagine that the number of patients with CKD-associated pruritus in your Unit is more important than your estimations?Do you also have a bunch of patients that you do not know what to do with their itch?In order to know this and many more on CKD-associated pruritus check out the

In the latest episode of A Pinch of Salt check out 'Proteinuria - the common suspect', the most obvious whodunit in the pathophysiological process of kidney disease. Things are changing and I start being confused with the labile landscape of proteinuria. A huge number of mechanisms are presented and a large number of molecules are circulating or will circulate soon. In th

A Pinch of Salt today set sail very far away! We went to the other side of the Atlantic ocean, transversed a few thousand km or miles of land and finally got to Katherine Tuttle, from Washington USA, an eminent specialist on translational medicine who will « unconfuse » us on the « new drugs in nephrology » a series of innovative treatments or indications for currently existing

Dialysis saves lives. But only if you can do it and do it well. Enter dialysis access. There is no dialysis without dialysis access. Whose job is it to take care of this vital, crucial part of dialysis? Is it OK to leave this to physicians for whom dialysis is not foremost in their minds? Or should it be the other way around? Should nephrologists become part-time surgeons? If you�

How many times per day during your dialysis rounds do you find the personnel a bit stressed near a patient suffering from an episode of intradialytic hypotension?And they are actually looking at you for the magic solution!A lot of things are simultaneously passing from your mind but sometimes you are not absolutely sure if you are doing the right thing…Despite the giant leaps of