Freely Filtered 017: COVID Autopsy, Acute PD, and Making CRRT Dialysate

It’s a full house with three topics and four special guests

The Filtrate:

Joel Topf

Swapnil Hiremath

Samira Farouk

Jennie Lin

Matt Sparks

And special guests:

Agnes Fozo: John L. Shapiro Chair of Pathology at Vanderbilt University and on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AgnesFogo

Hua Su: Professor of Medicine, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Osama El Shamy: Home Therapy Fellow at Mount Sinai and on Twitter: https://twitter.com/osamaelshamy88

Chirag Parikh: Director of Nephrology Johns Hopkins and on Twitter: https://twitter.com/KidneydrChirag

Show Notes:

Mark Denison, Corona virus expert. https://www.vumc.org/viiii/person/mark-r-denison-md and on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DenisonLab

Discussion on Twitter that the 3electron microgrpahs may show clathrin coated pits rather than Conorna virus. https://twitter.com/vighnesh_w/status/1250880961463513088?s=20

Chris Larsen’s case of collapsing glomerulopathy in a patient with COVID-19 https://www.kireports.org/article/S2468-0249(20)31172-4/abstract

Osler's rule: States that a neurological defect has to be related to a specific lesion, in contrast to Hickam's dictum, which states that the neurological defect can be due to several lesions.

Altered Lipid Metabolism in Recovered SARS Patients Twelve Years after Infection. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28831119

We don’t record (or roll) on the sabath https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPo9OBrIOi4

Using a dialysis machine to make CRRT dialysate, the Tweet: https://twitter.com/KidneydrChirag/status/1249867795602583554

Derek Fine, Parikh’s partner in crime: https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/profiles/results/directory/profile/0007605/derek-fine and on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DerekFineMD

Tablo Machine makes its own dialysate. It does not look like a cooler. https://www.outsetmedical.com/tablo/

Is Canada a communist country? https://www.quora.com/Is-Canada-a-communist-country

Lokelma is not a sponsor of Freely Filtered

Complications and Catheter Survival With Prolonged Embedding of Peritoneal Dialysis Catheters https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18281722/

Ontario Nursing Homes,”It felt like a war zone” https://www.pri.org/stories/2020-04-24/it-felt-war-zone-coronavirus-tears-through-canada-nursing-homes