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Mutations in the pendrin channel can manifest at a young age, with vestibular derangements, goiter, and this sensory deficiency.
What is bilateral hearing loss?
Hungry bone syndrome and refeeding syndrome can both cause this electrolyte disorder.
What is hypophosphatemia?
The program facilitating living donor transplantation among groups of incompatible donors and recipients.
What is paired exchange, or kidney paired donation?
This famous kidney transplant recipient is celebrating a recent engagement to music producer, Benny Blanco.
Who is Selena Gomez?
Immediate therapy for a woman receiving magnesium for preeclampsia who develops flaccid paralysis.
What is IV calcium?
These three things currently comprise the standard of care treatment regimen for early acute antibody mediated rejection.
What are IV methylprednisolone, plasmapheresis, and IVIG?
Ancient Egyptians didn't consider the kidneys important in the afterlife, so during embalming placed them here (along with the heart).
What is inside the body cavity, or inside the mummy?
A 16-year-old hypertensive female with low renin, low aldosterone, metabolic acidosis, and hyperkalemia most likely has this disorder, associated with mutations in the NCC channel.
What is Gordon's syndrome?
This electrolyte acts more like a middle-sized molecule when in aqueous solution, causing its clearance on dialysis to be a function of time rather than of pure diffusion gradients?
What is phosphorus?
This routine serologic evaluation is performed to characterize if a donor might be a Public Health Service Increased Risk Donor (PHS IRD).
What is nucleic acid testing (NAT) for Hep B, Hep C, and HIV?
During this war, acute dialysis using the Kolff-Brigham dialyzer - a rotating drum machine - was used successfully to bring ARF mortality from 87% to 53% for U.S. soldiers.
What is the US-Korean War?
The use of D-penicillamine in cystine stone therapy is often limited by development of this renal disorder.
What is membranous nephropathy?
Although unusual, the acute presentation of isolated postpartum diabetes insipidus may be due to placental production of this.
What is vasopressinase?
This serum electrolyte disorder is seen in individuals with a mutation in claudin-16.
What is hypomagnesemia?
During which Star Trek movie was Dr. "Bones" McCoy heard uttering the phrase "Kidney dialysis - what is this, the stone age?" when he found himself back in time in a 1986 San Francisco hospital.
What is Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home?
A 30-year-old man with nephrocalcinosis, kidney stones, hypercalciuria, low molecular weight proteinuria, and a serum creatinine of 2 mg/dL most likely has this disorder.
What is Dent's disease?
This electrolyte's excretion follows not just a daily pattern, but a weekly one irrespective of intake, leading to the term "circaseptan rhythm" when describing its handling.
What is sodium?
This carbohydrate has been in the press over the past decade, initially for its unexpected role in adult-acquired allergy and now as a CRISPR knockout target that may make xenotransplantation more feasible.
What is galactose-alpha-1,3-galactose (or alpha-gal)?
Caesar Augustus suffered from many ailments, including bladder and kidney stones. His physician, Antonius Musa, prescribed him these treatments...the aqueducts must have helped.
What is cold water, cold baths, cold plunge, or cold water therapy?