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The Nephron Segment: A Kidney Podcast The Nephron Segment: A Kidney Podcast

Join @nephrosparks.bsky.social, @ssfarouk.bsky.social, Steven Clapp, Alyssa Steitz, & Eric Wallace as they chat about the #NephMadness 2026 Genetics Region on the Nephron Segment Podcast:

How can we spot the PKD wanna-bes? What’s new in the treatment of Fabry disease?

podcast.show/nephron-segm...

11.03.2026 13:28 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Episode 11: Nephmadness Special! Matt Sparks and Aarushi Varshney on C3G | GN in Ten | Episode 11 In this episode, hosts Dr. Kenar Jhaveri and Dr. Koyal Jain are joined by Dr. Matt Sparks (co-creator of NephMadness) and Dr. Aarushi Varshney to discuss the evolving landscape of C3 Glomerulopathy (C...

🧪 Episode 11: The C3G Revolution
Hosts @kdjhaveri.bsky.social & Koyal Jain join @nephrosparks.bsky.social & Duke Fellow Dr. Aarushi Varshney to discuss the shifting landscape of C3G.
- The "Two Orders of Magnitude" Rule
- Breaking down APPEAR & VALIANT trials
Listen: share.transistor.fm/s/72477cca

12.03.2026 00:09 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Thanks 🙏

09.03.2026 00:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Good article by @nephrosparks.bsky.social

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38372686/

08.03.2026 12:01 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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#NephMadness 2026: C3G Region Submit your picks! | @NephMadness | @nephmadness.bsky.social | NephMadness 2026 Selection Committee Member: Bradley Dixon  Dr. Dixon is currently Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine and chief of t…

#NephMadness 2026: C3G Region

Teams:
- C3G Diagnosis
- C3G Treatment

Expert: Bradley Dixon
Writer: Aarushi Varshney
Execs: @nephrosparks.bsky.social & @kidneywars.bsky.social

bit.ly/NM26C3G

06.03.2026 14:38 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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#NephMadness 2026: Animal House Region Submit your picks! | @NephMadness | @nephmadness.bsky.social | NephMadness 2026 Selection Committee Member: Autumn Harris  At NC State University, Dr. Autumn Harris investigates how kidneys regulat…

#NephMadness 2026: Animal House Region

Teams: Dogs vs Cats

Experts: Autumn Harris & Kelly Hyndman
Writers: Sarah Street & Susan DiGiovanni
Execs: @kidneywars.bsky.social & @nephrosparks.bsky.social

bit.ly/NM26Animals

06.03.2026 17:08 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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It is #nephmadness time of the year!
🌞Artificial Intelligence in Nephrology-what are the real-world applications and limits?
⭐ Check out our #visualabstracts
👀Read on to know more
ajkdblog.org/2026/03/01/n...
@nephroseeker.medsky.social @nephrosparks.bsky.social @dramiliflores.bsky.social

05.03.2026 09:02 👍 4 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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#NephMadness 2026: IgA Nephropathy Region Submit your picks! | @NephMadness | @nephmadness.bsky.social | NephMadness 2026 Selection Committee Member: Laura Mariani @LauraMarianiMD Dr. Mariani is an Associate Professor and clinical research…

#NephMadness 2026: IgA Nephropathy Region

Teams:
- B-Cell Modulators
- Complement Inhibitors

Expert: Laura Mariani
Writer: Alessandra Tomasi
Execs: @nephrosparks.bsky.social & Dia Waguespack

bit.ly/NM26IgAN

05.03.2026 12:00 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Welcome to #NephMadness 2026 Our beautiful baby has grown into a moody, hormonal teen.  That’s right, it’s year 14 of NephMadness!  Whether this is your first time or you are a seasoned veteran, we have all the inf…

It's #NephMadness time!!
👉 ajkdblog.org/2026/03/01/w...
#NephJC #NephForward @ajkd.bsky.social

04.03.2026 16:27 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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#NephMadness 2026: C3G Region Submit your picks! | @NephMadness | @nephmadness.bsky.social | NephMadness 2026 Selection Committee Member: Bradley Dixon  Dr. Dixon is currently Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine and chief of t…

#NephMadness 2026: C3G Region

Teams:
- C3G Diagnosis
- C3G Treatment

Expert: Bradley Dixon
Writer: Aarushi Varshney
Execs: @nephrosparks.bsky.social & @kidneywars.bsky.social

bit.ly/NM26C3G

03.03.2026 15:14 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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The February issue of Kidney360 is now available online! Topics covered this month include: - Urine Microscopy Examination for Predicting Proliferative Glomerular Pathology - Nephron Number in IgA Nephropathy - and more. Check out the issue: kidney.pub/K360-0226 #ASNKidney360 Cover by Ida et al.

26.02.2026 19:00 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

For > 10 looks pretty solid

30.01.2026 22:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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#NephMadness 2026: Blue Ribbon Panel

bit.ly/45sGUdu

@therealdrdub.bsky.social @roy-chaudhury.bsky.social @maximalchange.bsky.social

24.01.2026 23:00 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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Really troubled by this question in a popular surgical critical care study book…

Surgical Critical Care and Emergency Surgery

Topic is early v late dialysis and so much on this topic is know and just disappointing to this question…. The keyed answer was….

22.01.2026 00:21 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
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This question raises concerns about the inappropriate early start which needs to be changed and the question removed

This is dangerous

22.01.2026 00:21 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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No signal for mortality but you end up with more on dialysis

22.01.2026 00:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Take at look at STARRT-AKI

Absolutely no signal for reduced hospital stay

www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

22.01.2026 00:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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They cite the lancet meta analysis of 1700 patients which is just before the 3000 patient STARRTAKI

Add the meta analysis on length of stay is not even significant!!!!! Why would they test trainees like this. Spreading false narrative

www.thelancet.com/action/showP...

22.01.2026 00:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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A shame this is take home message which is not rooted in evidence

Shorter hospital stay? DC to LTAC?

Are they serious?!??! This is dangerous

22.01.2026 00:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Really troubled by this question in a popular surgical critical care study book…

Surgical Critical Care and Emergency Surgery

Topic is early v late dialysis and so much on this topic is know and just disappointing to this question…. The keyed answer was….

22.01.2026 00:21 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
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#NephMadness 2026: Meet the Gamemakers

bit.ly/3Nk10Ap

@nephrosparks.bsky.social @annaburgner.bsky.social @kidneywars.bsky.social @jrkott27.bsky.social @catochita.bsky.social @ssfarouk.bsky.social

17.01.2026 17:00 👍 6 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
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#NephMadness 2026: Meet the Gamemakers

bit.ly/3Nk10Ap

@nephrosparks.bsky.social @annaburgner.bsky.social @kidneywars.bsky.social @jrkott27.bsky.social @catochita.bsky.social @ssfarouk.bsky.social

15.01.2026 17:08 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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We had a great time celebrating the year at the Duke Nephrology Holiday gathering

20.12.2025 18:40 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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This episode of the ASN Kidney Translation Podcast, hosted by @nephrosparks.bsky.social, covers CT-based body composition and GFR estimates in cancer (CJASN), transdermal GFR measurement (JASN), and novel hemodynamic markers in acute heart failure (K360). Listen here: kidney.pub/KTPOD121025

11.12.2025 20:00 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

All ELISAs that use biotin strepavidin at risk for this. Which are pretty much all ELISAs

02.12.2025 00:24 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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SCM26 Fellows Debate Application Please click the link to complete this form.

🏆 Join the NIT Fellows’ Debate at SCM26! #NephFellows, here’s your chance to shine. Complimentary registration for selected participants.

Deadline: 12/1, 11:59pm ET

👉 Apply: bit.ly/4qp10y7

#MedEd #Nephrology @NephMadness

26.11.2025 18:02 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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ATTN Fellows!!! Apply to be in the 3rd annual NephMadness NIT Fellows debate at NKF SCM in New Orleans

Application here

form.jotform.com/252084341700...

18.11.2025 03:46 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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The 2025 #NephMadness logo dropped

#kidneywk

ajkdblog.org/2025/11/06/n...

06.11.2025 14:08 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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#KidneyWk #HTNSecrets #Nephsecrets #NephSky
@hswapnil.medsky.social @kidneyboy.bsky.social @nephrosparks.bsky.social

08.11.2025 17:37 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Say no to #KidneyWk selfie smudges

06.11.2025 22:59 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0