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  • Presentations
    • General Nephrology Presentations
      • Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (Dr. Ron Wald)
      • Dialysis for Poisonings (Dr. Robert Richardson)
      • Reporting System Linked to Rise in Nephrologist Visits
      • Diet and Kidney Stone Prevention
      • Amphotericin B Nephrotoxicity - Dr K Shahid
      • Sickle Cell Anemia and Renal Disease - Dr P Blanchette
      • Syphilis and renal disease
      • Cardiorenal axis: Preventing and Treating diabetic nephropathy
      • Managing Heart and Kidney Disease in Your Practice
      • Acid Base Physiology Update CSN Review Course 2009
      • Pregnancy in hemodialysis patients
      • Nephrogenic systemic sclerosis: Update 2009
      • Microalbuminuria testing
      • Combining medications in the management of hypertension
      • Tubulointerstitial nephritis and uveitis (TINU): Case discussion
      • Wegener's granulomatosis
      • Hepatitis C and renal disease
      • Pulmonary renal syndromes in the ICU
      • Vaptans: Possible treatment for hyponatremia
      • Kidney stone prevention
      • Lithium induced diabetes insipidus
      • Vasculitis and RPGN
      • Lupus Nephritis
      • Highly active anti-retroviral therapy complications: a Nephrology Perspective
      • Surgical management of kidney stones
      • Electrolyte management in the Elderly
      • Hypertension and Angiotensin receptor blockers
      • Renal artery stenting: Indications and end-points
      • Renin angiotensin system
      • Chinese herb nephropathy
      • Renal sarcoidosis
      • Regulation of sodium excretion (Part 1)
      • Edema states and diuretics
      • Nephrogenic fibrosing dermopathy
      • Renal cell carcinoma
      • Hypertension in pregnancy
      • Renal pathology
      • Pulmonary-renal syndrome
      • eGFR and Microalbuminuria
      • Hypertension 2009
    • Hypertension Presentations
      • Hypertension Management in Type 2 Diabetes
      • Reducing Cardiovascular Disease and Renal Disease by Treating Proteinuria
      • CHEP 2010 Guidelines for Hypertension: Treatment
      • Evaluation of Rasilez (aliskiren) with epilogue on ONTARGET trial
        • Part 2
      • CHEP 2009 Guidelines for hypertension: Diagnosis
      • Current Trends and Controversies in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Hypertension
      • Hypertension 2009-Beyond the Cuff-Calgary CME
      • Hypertension management with focus on direct renin inhibitors
      • Olmesartan: Slide library
      • Olmesartan: Exploring a new antihypertensive
      • ONTARGET Results: Webcast available
      • Hypertension management: New in 2008
      • Treating hypertension
      • Assessing patients with hypertension
      • RADAR III: Hypertension and CKD
      • RADAR III: Microalbuminuria and CV disease
      • RADAR III: BP management and diabetic nephropathy
      • RADAR III: Severe Hypertension
      • RADAR III: Promoting treatment adherance
      • RADAR III: Lifestyle management
      • RADAR III: BP measurement
      • Focus on Stroke
    • Hemodialysis Presentations
      • Acute complications of hemodialysis (Dr. Marc Goldstein)
      • Hemodialysis access emergencies (Dr. Matthew Oliver)
      • Home and nocturnal hemodialysis
      • Blood volume monitoring and sodium profiling in HD
      • Past, present, future of hemodialysis
      • Non-infectious complications of HD catheters
      • Hemodialysis adequacy
      • Dialyzers and dialysis machines
      • Urea kinetics
    • Peritoneal Dialysis Presentations
      • Prevention of Peritoneal Dialysis-related infections
      • Controversy of biocompatible solutions in peritoneal dialysis - Dr J Perl
      • Update in Peritoneal Dialysis CSN Review Course 2009
      • Peritoneal dialysis: Video Preceptorship
      • Past, Present, Future of Peritoneal Dialysis
      • Adequacy of Peritoneal Dialysis
      • Overview and physiology of peritoneal dialysis
      • Challenging cases in peritoneal dialysis
      • Peritoneal dialysis in the elderly
      • PD in acute renal failure
      • Infectious complications of PD
      • Noninfectious complications of PD
      • Preservation of renal function
      • Ultrafiltration failure in PD
      • Primer of peritoneal dialysis
    • Chronic Kidney Disease Presentations
      • The Impact of Phosphate Food Additives in Chronic Kidney Disease (June Martin, RD)
      • Essential concepts in chronic renal failure: a CME Series
      • Bone and Mineral Metabolism and Disease in CKD
      • Chronic Kidney Disease: Overview
      • Renal anemia
      • Cardiovascular complications of chronic kidney disease
      • Renal Anatomy and Physiology: a foundation for learning about chronic renal failure
      • EMiNEM: Education in Mineral Metabolism
      • Pulmonary hypertension in end-stage renal disease
      • Detection, monitoring and referral of chronic kidney disease
      • Biology of uremia: Vascular disease
      • Sensipar
    • Renal Transplant Presentations
      • Transplant emergencies (Dr. Ramesh Prasad)
      • Essential clinical issues in renal transplantation
      • Commercial transplantation
      • BK Polyoma virus infection in renal transplantation
      • Hepatitis B in renal transplant recipients
      • Tissue typing and cross-matching in kidney transplantation
      • Immunosuppressive Medications
      • Kidney Pancreas Transplantation
      • Overview of renal transplantation
      • Essentials of live kidney donation
      • Viral infections in renal transplantation
      • Hypertension after renal transplant
      • Fungal infections in transplantation
      • Renal transplant surgery
    • Prevention in Renal Disease Conference-Toronto '09
      • Aggressive RAAS blockade should we change practice - Dr Phil Mcfarlane
      • IDNT and IRMA II Trials and Proteinuria Reduction - Dr Danny Sapir
      • Proteinuria reduction with ARBs: The DROP Study - Dr J Weinstein
      • Supramaximal Dose of Candesartan in Proteinuric Renal Disease - Dr Andrew Steele
      • Growth of Peritoneal dialysis: Impact of home assistance - Dr M Oliver
      • Prevention of Intradialytic Hypotension - Dr S Donnelly
      • Sleep Disorders in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease - Dr M Novak
      • Coping with the Difficult Patient - Dr G Hercz
      • Paraproteinemias (myeloma - amyloidosis) - Dr Joseph Mikhael
      • HIV-Associated Kidney Disease - Dr Christina Wyatt
      • Hepatitis C Glomerulonephritis - Dr Warren Kupin
      • Prevention of Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis-Dr J Appel
      • Prevention of IgA Nephropathy-Dr John Feehaly
      • Prenatal determinants for maximum nephron endowment at birth - Dr. Susan Bagby
      • Managing elderly persons with CKD stages 3-4 - Dr Vanita Jassal
      • Renal Sparing Strategies in Renal Cell Carcinoma - Dr A Finelli
      • A Trial of Care for CKD: Can-Prevent - Dr Brendan Barrett
      • Dual RAAS Blockade: Rationale and Literature Overview - Dr David Cherney
      • Sudden Death in Chronic Kidney Disease - Dr Patrick Parfrey
      • Pitfalls in estimating renal failure in the elderly by eGFR - Dr Richard Glasock
      • The role of Vitamin D for the prevention of diabetes mellitus and diabetic nephropathy - Dr Shayne Taback
      • Vexing Cases in Lupus Nephritis-Dr J Appel
      • Prevention of Chronic Kidney Disease in patients with disorders of the complement system - Dr. C Licht
      • Very old persons with chronic kidney disease: is Dialysis harmful? - Dr Eli Friedman
      • Prevention of nephrotoxicity of immunosuppressive agents in kidney transplantation - Dr J Zaltzman
      • Prevention of nephrotoxicity of the chemotherapeutic agent - Dr R Richardson
    • Bone and Mineral Metabolism
      • Renal Osteodystrophy: What's New - Dr Alastair Hutchison
      • Vascular calcification symposium 2009
      • Introduction to the KDIGO Guidelines
      • Vascular calcification symposium 2008
      • Fosrenol: An overview of a new phosphorus binder
      • Biology of uremia: Calcium, Phosphate and Vitamin D
      • Vascular calcification in CKD
      • Hyperparathyroidism - Focus on calcium
      • Overview of bone and minreal metabolism
      • Vitamin D in chronic kidney disease
  • YouTubule
    • Pathology Videos
      • Histopathology Kidney - Membranous glomerulonephritis
      • Histopathology Kidney - Acute tubular necrosis
      • Histopathology Kidney - Acute transplant rejection
      • Histopathology Kidney - Diabetic glomerulosclerosis
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      • Histopathology Kidney - Acute and chronic pyelonephritis
      • Histopathology Kidney - Adult polycystic disease
      • Histopathology Kidney - Arteriolosclerosis (hypertension)
      • Histopathology Kidney - Interstitial nephritis
      • Histopathology Kidney - Rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis
      • Histopathology Kidney - Acute tubular necrosis from ethylene
      • Histopathology Kidney - Systemic lupus erythematosus
    • General Nephrology Videos
      • Webcast - ISN 50 Years Panel Discussion
      • Video: Central line insertion
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      • Video: Step-by-step Guide
        • Part 2
        • Part 3
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      • Video: Introduction to PD
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      • Home Dialysis: The choice is yours (Part 2)
      • Home Dialysis: The choice is yours (Part 1)
      • Video: Dialysis modality choices
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      • Video: Introduction to live kidney donation
      • Video: Laproscopic donor nephrectomy
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      • Video: Overview of hyperparathyroidism
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      • Chronic kidney disease video part 3 - English
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      • Video: Sensipar for SHPT
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        • Angiotensin Receptor Blockers and Cancer
        • Dilemma for Dialysis Patients, Skinny is Dangerous
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        • The ACCORD Blood Pressure Study: The J-point realized?
        • Transplant Drug Two-Year Study Outcomes Show Superior Kidney Function
        • eGFR and microalbuminuria: a powerful duo
        • Vitamins are harmful in patients with chronic kidney disease
        • Thiazide diuretics are not created equal, especially with the new ARB azilsartan
        • Renal end-points in the ACCOMPLISH Study: Is it all hype?
        • Hyperphosphatemia management - It is time for a randomized trial
        • Removing a failed kidney allograft improves survival?
        • TREAT Trial with Aranesp in patients with diabetes and chronic kidney disease
        • FDA approves 4 H1N1 vaccines
        • Amgen Announces Top-Line Results of Trial to Reduce Cardiovascular Events With Aranesp(R) Therapy (TREAT) in CKD Patients With Type-2 Diabetes
        • KDIGO Bone and Mineral Guidelines now available
        • Sodium bicarbonate replacement delays progression of chronic kidney disease
        • INSPRA approved as adjunct to standard therapy to reduce risk of death
        • ASH: Calcium Channel Blocker Benefits in ACCOMPLISH Not Explained by Ambulatory BP
        • RecycleMe: An innovative website promoting organ donation
        • High cut-off hemodialysis for the treatment of multiple myeloma
        • More evidence for mycophenolate mofetil in lupus nephritis
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        • Major breakthrough in transplantation immunity
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