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Adam HORRORster 🎃 @kidneynerd.bsky.social · 22h

Everytime Clement makes a play #GoJaysGo #LetsGoBlueJays @bluejays.com

Adam HORRORster 🎃 @kidneynerd.bsky.social · 2d

Teaching my dad how the kidneys work by explaining to him why my dog just peed 2L after eating an entire turkeys worth of salt on Thanksgiving

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Western University @westernu.ca · 3d

Peter Howitt, @westernualumni.bsky.social, has won the #NobelPrize in #Economics.
He earned his master’s at #WesternU, spent nearly 25 years on our economics faculty and remains closely connected to our academic community as an Honorary Professor.
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#PurpleAndProud

Announcement of the 2025 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2025 was awarded "for having explained innovation-driven economic growth" with one half to Joel Mokyr "for having identified…

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Adam HORRORster 🎃 @kidneynerd.bsky.social · 4d

No remaining vascular access

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 7d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Adam HORRORster 🎃 @kidneynerd.bsky.social · 6d

Once I’m through this James Joyce phase I’m going to open an Irish bakery called Finnegan’s Cake

Adam HORRORster 🎃 @kidneynerd.bsky.social · 9d

Really interesting study. I would be curious to know what the average travel distance is for in centre hemodialysis given the 36% estimated contribution from travel to the overall carbon footprint

www.ajkd.org/article/S027...

Carbon Emissions From Different Dialysis Modalities: A Life Cycle Assessment

As the health impacts of climate change intensify, the health care sector faces growing pressure to minimize its carbon footprint. Achieving this goal requires understanding of the carbon impact of wi...

www.ajkd.org

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Adam HORRORster 🎃 @kidneynerd.bsky.social · 12d

I used to fall asleep to we only come out at night as a kid, still an awesome album that has aged great

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Adam HORRORster 🎃 @kidneynerd.bsky.social · 15d

צום קל לכולנו

Adam HORRORster 🎃 @kidneynerd.bsky.social · 19d

I’m trying to read Ulysses for the first time, anyone have any tips? Three chapters in and enjoying the challenge

Adam HORRORster 🎃 @kidneynerd.bsky.social · 19d

Uremic frost, great example

NEJM.org @nejm.org · 20d

A 52-year-old woman with hypertension presented to the hospital with a 1-month history of fatigue, as well as 6 days of vomiting and 1 day of confusion. Over the past 20 years, she had not received regular treatment for hypertension. 1/2

#MedSky

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Adam HORRORster 🎃 @kidneynerd.bsky.social · 24d

Chag sameach!

a bear is eating apples from a pile

ALT: a bear is eating apples from a pile

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Adam HORRORster 🎃 @kidneynerd.bsky.social · Sep 6

You and me both. Anything with a bit of brine to match the salinity.

Adam HORRORster 🎃 @kidneynerd.bsky.social · Sep 6

That is the correct wine, particularly if you get it from Rias Baixas region.

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Swapnil Hiremath 🍁🇨🇦 @hswapnil.medsky.social · Sep 3

The NatGeo does kidney disease

apple.news/AUF41xrh7RFe...

Feat @samirparikhmd.bsky.social Brad Rovin, Kathy Tuttle and more

#NephSky

This disease is on the rise—and many people don’t know that they have it — National Geographic

Nine out of 10 people with chronic kidney disease only find out when it progresses to later stages. Here’s what we know about its risk factors—and why there's new reason to hope for more effective tre...

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Adam HORRORster 🎃 @kidneynerd.bsky.social · Aug 28

The @adamfriedlandshow.bsky.social @ritchietorres.bsky.social debate is really quite the watch

Adam HORRORster 🎃 @kidneynerd.bsky.social · Aug 24

Broke: Pre workout drink
Woke: Creatini

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Swapnil Hiremath 🍁🇨🇦 @hswapnil.medsky.social · Aug 14

Spironolactone does not work for dialysis

ACHIEVE published in @thelancet.com

@lastwalsh.bsky.social and colleagues

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Coming soon to a #NephJC near you

Spironolactone versus placebo in patients undergoing maintenance dialysis (ACHIEVE): an international, parallel-group, randomised controlled trial

Among patients receiving maintenance dialysis, spironolactone 25 mg daily orally did not reduce the composite outcome of cardiovascular mortality and hospitalisation due to heart failure compared with...

www.thelancet.com

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Adam HORRORster 🎃 @kidneynerd.bsky.social · Aug 15

Patient in clinic today asked me if I worked out because my arms were huge and this is better than any single patient interaction that I have ever had. If you need me I’ll be on an ego trip for the weekend.

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Adam HORRORster 🎃 @kidneynerd.bsky.social · Aug 12

I have a male, could probably catch some urine on our walks 🤔

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Adam HORRORster 🎃 @kidneynerd.bsky.social · Aug 12

It feels so wrong as a nephrologist to be giving my dog meloxicam

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Edgar V. Lerma 🇵🇭 @edgarvlermamd.bsky.social · Jul 25

Algorithm for kidney biopsy 🔬 evaluation in patients suspected to have MGRS ca. 2019
#Nephpearls #NephSky

👉 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30510265/

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Adam HORRORster 🎃 @kidneynerd.bsky.social · Jul 6

Lando may have won but today’s race belongs to Hulk #BritishGrandPrix

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Adam HORRORster 🎃 @kidneynerd.bsky.social · Jun 26

Another day, another clinic wondering why we don’t fund dietitians and social work visit for patients for KFRE below 10%.

Adam HORRORster 🎃 @kidneynerd.bsky.social · Jun 16

New @nephjc.bsky.social @freelyfiltered.bsky.social full AI episode is a really interesting concept, might start doing something similar with the medical students when they rotate through nephro 👀

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Adam HORRORster 🎃 @kidneynerd.bsky.social · May 15

Wow this incredible. Using CRISPR in a human patient successfully.

Patient-Specific In Vivo Gene Editing to Treat a Rare Genetic Disease | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Patient-Specific In Vivo Gene Editing to Treat a Rare Genetic Disease | NEJM

Base editors can correct disease-causing genetic variants. After a neonate had received a diagnosis of severe carbamoyl-phosphate synthetase 1 deficiency, a disease with an estimated 50% mortality ...

www.nejm.org

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