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How many times do you wash your blood each day?
Stop Kidney Attack. See this great short video from last year’s World Kidney Day as to why it is so very very important to look after your kidneys. Or as Fred Dagg may sing “If it weren’t for your...
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30,000
Today’s number brought to you by <You could have your name here, contact the blog writer to arrange sponsorship> 30,000 – the number of Kidney Attacks in New Zealand each year. Where does this...
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A list of effective treatments for a Kidney Attack
Tagged: Acute Kidney Injury, Acute Renal Failure, Kidney, Kidney Attack, World Kidney Day
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The Face of Kidney Attack Part II
This guy crawls through bat dung for fun. He also runs incredibly long distances and then cycles or kayaks more. If you’ve not guessed already, our Face of Kidney Attack is multisport and adventure...
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Cooking up a new kidney
The Boston Kidney Recipe Take an unwanted kidney. Disconnect from plumbing. Wash away cells (use plenty of detergent). Take resultant scaffold and reseed with a few cells obtained from someone needing...
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The Face of Kidney Attack Part III
He didn’t die, quite. But later thought he may well of. Steve Gurney’s episode of Acute Kidney Injury (see Part II) didn’t finish him after he was discharged from his third hospital (one each in...
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Two new Health Research Council grants worth crowing about
This week’s announcement by the HRC of Feasibility Study and Emerging Researcher grants have many great projects. Two in particular are worth crowing about (because they have some relationship to...
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Too little pee
This week’s post is really about the coloured stuff & why too little of it is dangerous. Note, I say coloured stuff because it aint just yellow – check out this herald article if you don’t believe...
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A day to celebrate
If it weren’t for your kidneys where would you be? You’d be in the hospital or infirmary, If you didn’t have two functioning kidneys. (with apologies to John Clarke aka Fred Dagg) Happy World Kidney...
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Cheesecake files: Of bathtubs and kidneys
Sitting in the bathtub you notice that there is a slow leak around the plug. You adjust the taps to maintain a flow of water that exactly counteracts the loss due to the leak; the water level stays...
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Cheesecake files: A stadium full
As we’ve been enjoying the World Cup and the Commonwealth Games my latest cheesecake appeared in print online. The topic once more is Kidney Attack biomarkers – those pesky little proteins in the urine...
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Cheesecake files: Just how deadly is it?
Everyone said it did, but how did they know and by how much? Statements like “The development of AKI [Acute Kidney Injury] after CPB [Cardiopulmonary Bypass Surgery] is associated with a significant...
View ArticleCheesecake files: A little something for World Kidney Day
Today is World Kidney Day, so I shall let you in on a little secret. There is a new tool for predicting if a transplant is going to be problematic to get working properly. Nephrologist call a...
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A vision of kiwi kidneys
Sick of writing boring text reports. Take a leaf out of Christchurch nephrologist Dr Suetonia Palmer’s (@SuetoniaPalmer) book and make a visual abstract report. Here are two she has created recently...
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The Treatment of Kidney Failure in New Zealand
I am delighted to introduce a guest post from Dr Kelvin Lynn. Dr Lynn worked as a Nephrologist at Christchurch Hospital for 35 years and retired in 2015. He is the lead author for a book just...
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