ISN is excited to let you know about a new feature that is available to you as a member of the Society. This latest benefit will make the task of gathering and searching for meeting abstracts more easy and efficient. Northern Light ‘Discovery’ database is now freely available to all registered ISN members. An extensive...
As the voices of ISN, your views count and ensure we continue providing the best service while improving kidney care globally. You can contribute to the ISN membership survey until May 22, 2016. It takes just 15 minutes. You will also be entered into a draw to win a one year free ISN membership. For every...
The ISN Clinical and Research Program funded specific research into the efficiency of kinkeliba on non-complicated hypersensitive patients. The project was awarded USD 15,000 in 2013. Completed in early 2014, it received the best clinical research prize at the 2015 ISN World Congress of Nephrology congress and the 10th Conference on Kidney Disease in Disadvantaged...
A study undertaken during 2015 at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH), Blantyre, Malawi demonstrated that 20% of general medical admissions over a three-month period had evidence of kidney disease. Outcome (hospital mortality) in these patients was significantly worse than those with normal renal function. In response to this, and in line with the Ministry of...
The ISN Renal Disaster Relief Task Force (RDRTF) has released its first report following the earthquake that struck Ecuador on April 17, 2016. Chair of RDRTF Wim Van Biesen stated that the committee had been in contact with local ISN representatives in the region, the national nephrology society of Ecuador, and some local nephrologists (Cristobal...
A dialysis patient referred me to this article from The Atlantic. Published in 2010 but still worth reading. The ISN is all about closing gaps in the provision of kidney care worldwide, but when we think of "gaps", we tend to think of emerging countries, places in Africa or the poorest parts of Asia and Latin...
The Global Kidney Health Atlas (GKHA), part of the ISN Closing The Gaps CKD initiative, is co-chaired by Professor David Johnson (University of Queensland, Australia) and Dr Aminu Bello (University of Alberta, Canada). The purpose is to systematically evaluate the current state of readiness, capacity and competence for delivering kidney health care globally. World nations are being pushed...
The ISN Advancing Clinical Trials (ISN-ACT) group is a new ISN Initiative to leverage existing infrastructures within ISN to improve how the global nephrology community conducts and participates in clinical trial research, through a series of activities and initiatives. The aim of ISN-ACT is to increase the number of international high-quality clinical trials in nephrology,...
The Young Nephrologists Committee (YNC) would like to welcome its new Chair Rolando Claure-Del Granado, who will take over from Jeffrey Perl. Many thanks to Jeffrey for his dedicated efforts in the last few years. Perl says: “We have seen our committee grow in breadth and scope with representation from across the globe. Workshops to improve...
As of April 29, 2016, send your abstracts and register for the ISN Forefronts symposium taking place in Vienna from December 9 to 11, 2016. The theme for this meeting is regulatory RNAs and the kidney. Non-coding RNAs regulate normal cellular functions but are also critical regulators of disease processes. Therefore, they are being explored...
Having returned from spending a month working with the renal team Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Blantyre, Malawi, I wanted to blog about what nephrologists and nephrology researchers are up against in the country. I had the pleasure of working with a dedicated team of people on a current research study focusing on children suffering from...
The outcome of the Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) Global Snapshot, an innovative web-based global cohort study carried out under the ISN 0by25 Initiative, is published in The Lancet today. Including 4,000 patients in over 72 countries, the study assessed similarities and differences in recognizing and managing AKI globally. The study found that over half of the patients in...
A team from the Liverpool International Transplant Initiative and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital carried out the first two kidney transplants at the An-Najah University Hospital in Nablus, on the West Bank on March 26, 2016. The collaboration was made possible thanks to the ISN and The Transplant Society (TTS) Sister Transplant Center Program. The...
Kidney International (KI) Reports is now accepting submissions, especially relating to clinical trials, epidemiology, systematic reviews and outcome research. This peer-reviewed journal publishes original clinical and select translational articles as well as educational content related to the pathogenesis, evaluation and management of acute and chronic kidney disease, end-stage renal disease, transplantation, acid-base, fluid and electrolyte...
Following this year’s World Kidney Day, The Mario Negri Institute is happy to announce that there will be another edition of the Scientific Writing Academy, taking place from September 12 to 18, 2016 in Ranica, Bergamo, Italy. Fighting kidney diseases involves research and publication, as much as working directly with patients. “Our academy hopes to...
Kidney International Reports, an official journal of the International Society of Nephrology, is a peer-reviewed, open access journal devoted to the publication of leading research and developments related to kidney disease. With the primary aim of contributing to improved care of patients with kidney disease, the journal will publish original clinical and select translational articles...
The final board statement of the Consortium for the Epidemic of Nephropathy in Central America and Mexico / Consorcio de la Epidemia de la Nefropatía en Centroamérica y México (CENCAM) group in relation to chronic kidney disease (CKD) of unknown origin or mesoamerican nephropathy has been released for communication. ISN recently co-sponsored this event. This...
ISN Educational Ambassador Hui-Kim Yap recently made a trip to Myanmar. Based at the National University of Singapore, she taught local doctors at two of the country’s major children's hospitals the latest skills relating to dialysis and shared her knowledge of clinical nephrology and acute kidney injury. Myanmar is divided when it comes to public...
Access to diagnosis and dialysis for acute kidney injury can be life-saving, but can be prohibitively expensive in low-income settings. The burden of acute kidney injury in sub-Saharan Africa is presumably high but remains unknown. The authors of this study did a systematic review to assess outcomes of acute kidney injury in sub-Saharan Africa...
Having discussed the influence of lifestyle modification on prevention of chronic kidney disease in previous columns extensively, I will now turn my attention to its effect on prevention of kidney stones. Almost five percent of adults in the US suffer from kidney stones, with more than half having multiple recurrences. Patients end up in...