Way to go Blogger

It seems that Blogger, the service that hosts PBFluids and a number of other nephrology blogs including the Renal Fellow Network, usually gets disregarded and most serious bloggers elect to go with WordPress. I have been delighted with Blogger since beginning PBFluids almost three years ago and have been impressed with the regular updates they have introduced. Today, though they really blew me away. Take a look at the new Blogger Dynamic Views:

You can view any public Blogger website in the new views by adding "/views" to the end of the url.

Follow this link to see PBFluids in Mosaic. Sidebar is another do-not-miss view.

Blogger teased this in their recent ad they put together for South by Southwest:

Those pregnant patients with glomerulonephritis

I am still researching and writing up a monster post on membraous nephropathy and pregnancy (2,300 words and 7 images so far and I still have a handful of references to go). Researching this topic is like archeology. All the literature is from the early 90's and 80's. Almost none of the data is available as full text on the web. No PDFs. Its all scans of photocopies.

But I think the topic is important and having and the fact that the primary data is locked up in paper makes a comprehensive review indexible by google, all the more important.

The survey is also gaining data. So far it is showing definite equipoise on the questions. I am still looking for some more participants.

Nonhepatic hyperammonemias

A couple of months ago we had a patient with hyperammonemia from Depakote. Cool stuff. Dr. RW has the skinny.

Notes from Dr. RW: Nonhepatic hyperammonemias: "---may be underappreciated causes of encephalopathy in hospitalized patients. I recently blogged one example of a nonhepatic hyperammonemia..."

The types of doctor blogs

I guess PBFluids is part Dr. Boring and part Dr. Didactic.

From A Cartoon Guide to Becoming a Doctor

I guess thats better than being Dr. Product Placement.