The Filtrate:

Joel Topf

Swapnil Hiremath

Josh Waitzman

Sophia Ambruso

With Special Guest:

Anna Vinakova Associate Professor of Medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University. NephMadness Executive.

Vanuja Java is a transplant nephrologist at Washington University in St. Louis, MO. Her research involves functional characterization of genetic variants in complement-mediated diseases. She co-chairs the ClinGen complement gene curation expert panel.

Editor:

Sophia Ambruso

Show Notes:

#NephMadness 2023: Thrombotic Microangiopathy Region

TMA Review article in the NEJM from 2014: Syndromes of Thrombotic Microangiopathy

Dr. Anuja Java Co-chairs Working Group in an International Committee for Revising aHUS Nomenclature

Nephrology Secrets 4th Edition at Amazon

University of Iowa Genetic testing for aHUS

Early Eculizumab Withdrawal in Patients With Atypical Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome in Native Kidneys Is Safe and Cost-Effective: Results of the CUREiHUS Study. KI reports. This is the Netherlands study. They used home urine dipsticks to monitor for relapses.

Clinical promise of next-generation complement therapeutics Nature reviews. Drug Discovery

NephMadness Podcrawl

Tubular Secretions

Swap: Neuromancer and the works of William Gibson (@GreatDismal)

Sophia: The Magicians on Netflix

Anna: Recommends nephrology. Says it is awesome.

Anuja: Dope Sick on Hulu and Women in Nephrology mentor program

Josh: Mobituaries with Mo Rocca. Specifically “Death of a Banana”

Joel: Ivory by TapBot

Class Unity News Round Up #1