Episode 286 – Rafael Medina Subspecialty Series – Elevated Creatinine
The Clinical Problem Solvers
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What Is a Crescent?
If you see a crescent, it's always bad or like a lot. But no sense is that kidneys are going to die very fast if not treated. If we break down a structure of the glomerulus, we have something called the mesangium,. The basement membrane through which all of the process of filtration and everything happens. When you have damage to the basement membrane lining, you have extravisation of inflammatory cells that causes extensive basically just wrecks havoc.
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Dr. Ashita Tolwani, Professor of Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). She was the Nephrology Fellowship Training Program Director from 2004-2010 and is now the Associate Program Director. She is also the Director for ICU Nephrology at UAB. (Twitter: luck_urine)
