Tom Forbes

@kidneytom.bsky.social

Another day, another ex-prem patient with nephrocalcinosis undiagnosed with “bilateral medullary sponge kidney”!! It’s quite fascinating how this erroneous label seems to stick to patients for years after a passing mention in an ultrasound report without anyone ever looking into what it means!!

Sitting in the Diabetic Kidney Disease session at #PAS2025. Cherry Mammen presenting on AKI in DKA. Approx 50% of DKA have AKI, and approx 28% have severe AKI. RRT is uncommon (4%) but neurocog outcomes are poorer at 3-6 months.

On behalf of the ANZ NKC Chapter, thank you thank you thank you #PSANZ2025 🙏🙏🙏. Huge attendance and great discussion at our symposium today!!! We were just blown away by the enthusiasm and engagement from you all to improve our care and research into neonatal kidney disease.

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Very grateful for the opportunity to present our local data-led audit of #AKI at #PSANZ2025. Work made possible by the coding expertise and supervision of Emily See and the amazing resource that is the Centre for Health Analytics at the Melbourne Children’s Campus.

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All patients with Dent’s (and presumably Lowe’s) Disease should be screened and treated for low vitamin A. This can drop because of loss of retinol binding protein and when severe can have permanent effects on their vision. #IPNA2025

Tammy Brady just gave the most outstanding interactive workshop on blood pressure measurement at #IPNA2025. Things you mightn’t know can increase the blood pressure, crossed legs, watching the phone, TALKING!!

Moin Saleem discusses the potential for genetic therapies for podocin associated nephrotic syndrome, using pod cure specific promoters to overcome some of the difficulty in cell specific delivery in the kidney. #IPNA2025

Moon Saleem discusses genetic drivers of steroid sensitive nephrotic syndrome, and steroid resistant NS, the latter having some risk alleles that may predict for FSGS in the absence of a monogenic cause. #IPNA2025

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