Nephrology

Infectious Disease

Questions discussed in this category

How long do you continue PJP prophylaxis in a patient with GPA who is able to wean steroids and remains only on rituximab for maintenance therapy?

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What else do you consider in the differential diagnosis for pulmonary-renal syndromes if there is low clinical and serologic evidence of AAV, Goodpasture's or other rheumatologic disease (SLE, RA, APS, Scleroderma)?

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What is your approach to determining the need for continued isolation in the dialysis unit for an ESKD patient who had a positive hepatitis B surface antigen one year ago but who now has a negative HbsAg in the absence of treatment?

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Are there instances when you do not recommend tunneled dialysis catheter exchange in patients on hemodialysis who are found to have bacteremia?

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What is the antifungal prophylaxis regimen that you use in patients on peritoneal dialysis who are receiving antibiotics?

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Do you hold IV iron in the setting of active infection?

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Papers discussed in this category

Perit Dial Int, 2022 Mar

ISPD peritonitis guideline recommendations: 2022 update on prevention and treatment.

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2009-07-01

Clinical practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of intravascular catheter-related infection: 2009 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

Current opinion in rheumatology, 2018 Jul

Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole and antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies-associated vasculitis.

European journal of medical research, 2009 Dec 07

Co-trimoxazole and prevention of relapses of PR3-ANCA positive vasculitis with pulmonary involvement.

Annals of the rheumatic diseases, 2018 Jun 27

Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole prophylaxis prevents severe/life-threatening infections following rituximab in antineutrophil cytoplasm antibody-associated vasculitis.

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