Visual Reference Library

Nephrology concepts, clinical reasoning, and patient education at a glance

Andrew Bland, MD, FACP, FAAP

Learn visually, then explore the full topic

339 visual summaries across lectures, dialysis nursing, Clinical Mastery, student resources, the Nephrology Primer, patient education, and case reports. The graphics also appear in their matching educational pages.

Search a topic or choose a collection. The library uses complete medical infographics with integrated anatomy, magnified mechanisms, clinical comparisons and teaching charts. Each composition is built around its topic. Each graphic has a downloadable image, a readable text version, and links back to the full educational material.

Hyperkalemia: protect the heart, shift potassium into cells, and remove it from the body.
Explore the illustrated hyperkalemia abstract · Select any topic below for its graphic, explanation and sources.

Explore more complete illustrations: muscle breakdown and kidney injury · drug-related injury across kidney compartments · the original intrinsic AKI abstract.

New opening-lecture visuals: SGLT2 vs loop feedback · albuminuria and the heat map · creatinine lag in AKI · what the kidneys regulate · RAAS · ADH · homeostasis and the skeleton key.

339 visual summaries