Florian Buchkremer
@swissnephro.bsky.social
Nephrologist. Views are my own. #UrinarySediment #Hyponatremia #POCUS
👉 www.swissnephro.org
👉 www.swissnephro.org
Pinned
… and the approximate 5th percentile CKD-EPI 2009 reference values are easy to memorize👇👇👇👇
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5 reasons to publish with KICR
www.theisn.org/blog/2026/01...
@theisn.org @arvindcanchi.bsky.social
#NephSky
www.theisn.org/blog/2026/01...
@theisn.org @arvindcanchi.bsky.social
#NephSky
Five compelling reasons to submit to Kidney International Case Reports™ - International Society of Nephrology
www.theisn.org
January 27, 2026 at 12:05 PM
5 reasons to publish with KICR
www.theisn.org/blog/2026/01...
@theisn.org @arvindcanchi.bsky.social
#NephSky
www.theisn.org/blog/2026/01...
@theisn.org @arvindcanchi.bsky.social
#NephSky
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January 15, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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What are your differential diagnosis for this ultrastructural finding?
#DiagnoseThis #nephx #pathx #renal #kidneypath
#DiagnoseThis #nephx #pathx #renal #kidneypath
December 22, 2025 at 1:56 PM
What are your differential diagnosis for this ultrastructural finding?
#DiagnoseThis #nephx #pathx #renal #kidneypath
#DiagnoseThis #nephx #pathx #renal #kidneypath
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Nice blog post about the various milk options and what they offer kidney patients:
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
Got Milk? It’s a Tricky Question for Renal Patients
Renal diets with limits on protein, potassium, phosphorus, calcium, and sodium make milk choices baffling. Knowing the pros and cons of a variety of milks can help take the guesswork out of breakfast.
www.medscape.com
December 23, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Nice blog post about the various milk options and what they offer kidney patients:
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
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Food for thought
Science populism, EBM and influencers
absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/12/19/s... from @hildabast.bsky.social
Science populism, EBM and influencers
absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/12/19/s... from @hildabast.bsky.social
Science Populism, Medicine Style - Absolutely Maybe
I hadn’t been aware of the term science populism until a video about it did the rounds recently. It was a light-bulb…
absolutelymaybe.plos.org
December 20, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Food for thought
Science populism, EBM and influencers
absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/12/19/s... from @hildabast.bsky.social
Science populism, EBM and influencers
absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/12/19/s... from @hildabast.bsky.social
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#KPMP is ending 2025 on a high note with our Q4 2025 Kidney Tissue Atlas Release dropping today 🥳🎉 What are you waiting for? Go check out the explorer, repository AND spatial viewer release highlights!
atlas.kpmp.org
#Kidney #Atlas #Nephrology #PrecisionMedicine #OpenAccess #Data #PublicData
atlas.kpmp.org
#Kidney #Atlas #Nephrology #PrecisionMedicine #OpenAccess #Data #PublicData
December 19, 2025 at 11:33 PM
#KPMP is ending 2025 on a high note with our Q4 2025 Kidney Tissue Atlas Release dropping today 🥳🎉 What are you waiting for? Go check out the explorer, repository AND spatial viewer release highlights!
atlas.kpmp.org
#Kidney #Atlas #Nephrology #PrecisionMedicine #OpenAccess #Data #PublicData
atlas.kpmp.org
#Kidney #Atlas #Nephrology #PrecisionMedicine #OpenAccess #Data #PublicData
Reposted by Florian Buchkremer
Explore the KPMP Kidney Tissue Atlas today
🔍 Search markers
🧬Download raw gene data
🗺️Explore spatial data
Openly accessible and designed to support discovery
🔗 atlas.kpmp.org
#KPMP #KidneyResearch #OpenScience #KidneyTissueAtlas
🔍 Search markers
🧬Download raw gene data
🗺️Explore spatial data
Openly accessible and designed to support discovery
🔗 atlas.kpmp.org
#KPMP #KidneyResearch #OpenScience #KidneyTissueAtlas
Explorer
atlas.kpmp.org
June 3, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Explore the KPMP Kidney Tissue Atlas today
🔍 Search markers
🧬Download raw gene data
🗺️Explore spatial data
Openly accessible and designed to support discovery
🔗 atlas.kpmp.org
#KPMP #KidneyResearch #OpenScience #KidneyTissueAtlas
🔍 Search markers
🧬Download raw gene data
🗺️Explore spatial data
Openly accessible and designed to support discovery
🔗 atlas.kpmp.org
#KPMP #KidneyResearch #OpenScience #KidneyTissueAtlas
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#Alport Syndrome is a Partial #Tubulointerstitial Disease of the #Kidney
#VisualAbstract by @Husamjz
https://www.kireports.org/article/S2468-0249(25)00704-1/fulltext
#VisualAbstract by @Husamjz
https://www.kireports.org/article/S2468-0249(25)00704-1/fulltext
December 17, 2025 at 2:01 PM
#Alport Syndrome is a Partial #Tubulointerstitial Disease of the #Kidney
#VisualAbstract by @Husamjz
https://www.kireports.org/article/S2468-0249(25)00704-1/fulltext
#VisualAbstract by @Husamjz
https://www.kireports.org/article/S2468-0249(25)00704-1/fulltext
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GFR Measured With Computerized Tomography Urography in Healthy Individuals and Patients With CKD - American Journal of Kidney Diseases www.ajkd.org/article/S027...
GFR Measured With Computerized Tomography Urography in Healthy Individuals and Patients With CKD
Opportunistic CT-based screening is the practice of exploiting incidental imaging
data for prevention, risk profiling, or presymptomatic detection of relevant disease
unrelated to the purpose for whic...
www.ajkd.org
November 12, 2025 at 6:28 PM
GFR Measured With Computerized Tomography Urography in Healthy Individuals and Patients With CKD - American Journal of Kidney Diseases www.ajkd.org/article/S027...
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Highlights from my talk yesterday on Alport syndrome spectrum of disorders. (since no one posted it, I'll have to do it myself)
Variants in type IV collagen cause a wide spectrum of disease. #KidneyWk 🧵
Variants in type IV collagen cause a wide spectrum of disease. #KidneyWk 🧵
November 6, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Highlights from my talk yesterday on Alport syndrome spectrum of disorders. (since no one posted it, I'll have to do it myself)
Variants in type IV collagen cause a wide spectrum of disease. #KidneyWk 🧵
Variants in type IV collagen cause a wide spectrum of disease. #KidneyWk 🧵
Reposted by Florian Buchkremer
Nephrologists deported
Grants defunded
NIDDK folded into National Institute of body parts
AHRQ demolished
Now this…
When are our organizations going to speak up?
#NephSky
Grants defunded
NIDDK folded into National Institute of body parts
AHRQ demolished
Now this…
When are our organizations going to speak up?
#NephSky
July 2, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Nephrologists deported
Grants defunded
NIDDK folded into National Institute of body parts
AHRQ demolished
Now this…
When are our organizations going to speak up?
#NephSky
Grants defunded
NIDDK folded into National Institute of body parts
AHRQ demolished
Now this…
When are our organizations going to speak up?
#NephSky
Reposted by Florian Buchkremer
Hilarious (and sobering) essay on the use of AI in medical research & manuscript writing
Read the whole thing!
John Daugirdas has been on the cutting edge of tech in meded before #MedEd was thing
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#MedSky #NephSky
Read the whole thing!
John Daugirdas has been on the cutting edge of tech in meded before #MedEd was thing
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#MedSky #NephSky
Use of Artificial Intelligence in Scientific Writing. The Danger of Trying Too Hard to Please
The author describes his experience using several artificial intelligence programs to assist in the process of editing or preparing manuscripts for publication. While the programs were very useful to...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
June 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Hilarious (and sobering) essay on the use of AI in medical research & manuscript writing
Read the whole thing!
John Daugirdas has been on the cutting edge of tech in meded before #MedEd was thing
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#MedSky #NephSky
Read the whole thing!
John Daugirdas has been on the cutting edge of tech in meded before #MedEd was thing
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#MedSky #NephSky
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I am BEGGING major journals to stop platforming the current administration's politicization of the FDA, CDC, vaccines, etc
This sort of evidence-lite, glitzy puff piece seems appropriate for a newspaper OpEd, not a medical journal.
Platforming it in a major journal gives it the veneer of validity.
This sort of evidence-lite, glitzy puff piece seems appropriate for a newspaper OpEd, not a medical journal.
Platforming it in a major journal gives it the veneer of validity.
Viewpoint: The US FDA aims to expedite drug approvals and address childhood chronic diseases by leveraging innovation, food safety, #AI, and big data.
ja.ma/45jWnNS #MedSky
ja.ma/45jWnNS #MedSky
June 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I am BEGGING major journals to stop platforming the current administration's politicization of the FDA, CDC, vaccines, etc
This sort of evidence-lite, glitzy puff piece seems appropriate for a newspaper OpEd, not a medical journal.
Platforming it in a major journal gives it the veneer of validity.
This sort of evidence-lite, glitzy puff piece seems appropriate for a newspaper OpEd, not a medical journal.
Platforming it in a major journal gives it the veneer of validity.
Reposted by Florian Buchkremer
It's been a long journey but today we can share the methods and rationale for the #ACHIEVEtrial (Spiro vs placebo for patients with kidney failure receiving maintenance dialysis) and tomorrow we share the results at #era25
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
The Aldosterone Blockade for Health Improvement Evaluation in End-Stage Renal Disease (ACHIEVE) Trial: Rationale and Clinical Research Protocol - Michael Walsh, David Collister, Martin Gallagher, Patr...
Background: The mineralocorticoid aldosterone may contribute to the risk of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in patients receiving maintenance dialysis. W...
journals.sagepub.com
June 5, 2025 at 7:44 AM
It's been a long journey but today we can share the methods and rationale for the #ACHIEVEtrial (Spiro vs placebo for patients with kidney failure receiving maintenance dialysis) and tomorrow we share the results at #era25
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Reposted by Florian Buchkremer
Update to our supersaturation and kidney stone risk assessment tool:
We have added calcium to citrate ratios to the result section providing even greater risk assessment tools to the kit. Thanks very much to Vladimir Belostotsky for the idea!
ukidney.com/calculators/...
We have added calcium to citrate ratios to the result section providing even greater risk assessment tools to the kit. Thanks very much to Vladimir Belostotsky for the idea!
ukidney.com/calculators/...
May 29, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Update to our supersaturation and kidney stone risk assessment tool:
We have added calcium to citrate ratios to the result section providing even greater risk assessment tools to the kit. Thanks very much to Vladimir Belostotsky for the idea!
ukidney.com/calculators/...
We have added calcium to citrate ratios to the result section providing even greater risk assessment tools to the kit. Thanks very much to Vladimir Belostotsky for the idea!
ukidney.com/calculators/...
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This systematic review shows blood pressure reduction from sodium reduction in the context of antihypertensive medication use.
Blood Pressure–Lowering Medications, Sodium Reduction, and Blood Pressure | Hypertension www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...
Blood Pressure–Lowering Medications, Sodium Reduction, and Blood Pressure | Hypertension www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...
Blood Pressure–Lowering Medications, Sodium Reduction, and Blood Pressure | Hypertension
BACKGROUND: Both blood pressure–lowering medication and sodium reduction are effective in hypertension
control, but whether the effect of sodium reduction differ across blood pressure–lowering
medicat...
www.ahajournals.org
May 29, 2025 at 9:32 AM
This systematic review shows blood pressure reduction from sodium reduction in the context of antihypertensive medication use.
Blood Pressure–Lowering Medications, Sodium Reduction, and Blood Pressure | Hypertension www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...
Blood Pressure–Lowering Medications, Sodium Reduction, and Blood Pressure | Hypertension www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...
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🧵5 Top Free Alternatives to BioRender for Scientific Illustrations!
These five websites offer free scientific illustrations for biologists. Great for presentations, research papers and other research communication needs.
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These five websites offer free scientific illustrations for biologists. Great for presentations, research papers and other research communication needs.
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May 13, 2025 at 7:55 PM
🧵5 Top Free Alternatives to BioRender for Scientific Illustrations!
These five websites offer free scientific illustrations for biologists. Great for presentations, research papers and other research communication needs.
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These five websites offer free scientific illustrations for biologists. Great for presentations, research papers and other research communication needs.
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This is so exciting! The German National Library of Medicine @zbmed.bsky.social just had its first open meeting on the plan for an open & independent PubMed safety net. Here's my write-up @plos.org on the meeting & how institutions & others can help absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/05/14/g...
#MedLibs
#MedLibs
Germany's Plan for an Open and Independent PubMed Safety Net - Absolutely Maybe
A few months ago, I wrote about reasons to be concerned about the reliability of PubMed under the new regime at the…
absolutelymaybe.plos.org
May 14, 2025 at 3:41 PM
This is so exciting! The German National Library of Medicine @zbmed.bsky.social just had its first open meeting on the plan for an open & independent PubMed safety net. Here's my write-up @plos.org on the meeting & how institutions & others can help absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/05/14/g...
#MedLibs
#MedLibs
Reposted by Florian Buchkremer
Amiloride was noninferior to spironolactone in lowering home systolic blood pressure at 12 weeks.
https://ja.ma/42XMGD9
https://ja.ma/42XMGD9
May 14, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Amiloride was noninferior to spironolactone in lowering home systolic blood pressure at 12 weeks.
https://ja.ma/42XMGD9
https://ja.ma/42XMGD9
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RBC cast - brightfield with SM stain - from new case of MPA - #UrineMicroscopy #UrinarySediment
May 13, 2025 at 3:04 AM
RBC cast - brightfield with SM stain - from new case of MPA - #UrineMicroscopy #UrinarySediment
Reposted by Florian Buchkremer
Thrilled to unveil the first-in-human use of #apelin in #hyponatremia at #ECE2025 in Copenhagen.
Endless gratitude to @christ-crain.bsky.social for championing bold research paths, and to @julierefardt.bsky.social and @fichapman.bsky.social, whose groundwork paved the way for this endeavor
Endless gratitude to @christ-crain.bsky.social for championing bold research paths, and to @julierefardt.bsky.social and @fichapman.bsky.social, whose groundwork paved the way for this endeavor
May 12, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Thrilled to unveil the first-in-human use of #apelin in #hyponatremia at #ECE2025 in Copenhagen.
Endless gratitude to @christ-crain.bsky.social for championing bold research paths, and to @julierefardt.bsky.social and @fichapman.bsky.social, whose groundwork paved the way for this endeavor
Endless gratitude to @christ-crain.bsky.social for championing bold research paths, and to @julierefardt.bsky.social and @fichapman.bsky.social, whose groundwork paved the way for this endeavor
This is absolutely amazing!
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
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🧵 Introducing the EQUIL2 Urinary Supersaturation Calculator
A powerful web-based tool for nephrologists and researchers to assess kidney stone risk with ease. Based on the validated EQUIL2 algorithm from peer-reviewed scientific literature.
ukidney.com/calculators/...
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A powerful web-based tool for nephrologists and researchers to assess kidney stone risk with ease. Based on the validated EQUIL2 algorithm from peer-reviewed scientific literature.
ukidney.com/calculators/...
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EQUIL2 - Urinary Supersaturation Calculator
Calculate urinary supersaturation based on EQUIL2 methodology.
ukidney.com
May 12, 2025 at 8:10 PM
This is absolutely amazing!
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
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🧵 Introducing the EQUIL2 Urinary Supersaturation Calculator
A powerful web-based tool for nephrologists and researchers to assess kidney stone risk with ease. Based on the validated EQUIL2 algorithm from peer-reviewed scientific literature.
ukidney.com/calculators/...
1/3
A powerful web-based tool for nephrologists and researchers to assess kidney stone risk with ease. Based on the validated EQUIL2 algorithm from peer-reviewed scientific literature.
ukidney.com/calculators/...
1/3
EQUIL2 - Urinary Supersaturation Calculator
Calculate urinary supersaturation based on EQUIL2 methodology.
ukidney.com
May 12, 2025 at 4:25 PM
🧵 Introducing the EQUIL2 Urinary Supersaturation Calculator
A powerful web-based tool for nephrologists and researchers to assess kidney stone risk with ease. Based on the validated EQUIL2 algorithm from peer-reviewed scientific literature.
ukidney.com/calculators/...
1/3
A powerful web-based tool for nephrologists and researchers to assess kidney stone risk with ease. Based on the validated EQUIL2 algorithm from peer-reviewed scientific literature.
ukidney.com/calculators/...
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