The ISN and Kidney International surveyed nephrologists across six continents, representing the ten ISN Regions, to assess the impact of COVID-19 on dialysis patients and staff and health system responses to the pandemic specific to dialysis. Access the reports here.
Healthcare workers at the main entrance to Hospital Obrero #2, Cochabamba, Bolivia Young ISN members have been at the forefront of the global fight against COVID-19. In this article, Marina Wainstein, Rolando Claure-Del Granado, and Chimota Phiri share their experience of managing COVID-19 patients in Australia, Bolivia, and Malawi respectively highlighting the challenges young nephrologists...
In 2018, Sandra Wagner (France), Angie Aguilar-Gonzalez (Guatemala), and Amarasiri de Silva (Sri Lanka/USA) received ISN-H4KH (Hydration for Kidney Health) Grants for their respective projects. All three recipients had their abstracts accepted for presentation at WCN’20 and, consequently, published in Kidney International Reports. Sandra Wagner et al. investigated the association between Uosm and eGFR decline; and the...
A press conference takes place in Honduras as part of the WKD 2020 campaign World Kidney Day (WKD) has released its Impact Report from the WKD 2020 Campaign which highlighted the importance of lifestyle interventions to prevent kidney diseases. On March 12, 2020, over 1200 WKD activities in almost 100 countries raised awareness of accessible approaches toward kidney health. Diverse regional...
The ISN Global Kidney Health Atlas team has prepared summary slides of the ISN GKHA 2019 focusing on each ISN region individually. ISN invites members to share the results from their region with colleagues and key stakeholders to support discussions on and advocate for kidney health care with relevant national and regional health/policy/education officials. The new material contains...
The International Society of Nephrology (ISN), with its mission to improve kidney health worldwide and ensure that all people have equitable access to sustainable kidney health, has noted with alarming concern that President Donald Trump has formally moved to withdraw the US from the World Health Organization (WHO). The global healthcare community has appreciated the...
Dear Member, The ISN General Assembly meeting was due to take place at 7:00 am on 28 March 2020 during the World Congress of Nephrology 2020 in Abu Dhabi. We regret that the current global health situation did not allow for the WCN’20 to proceed as planned, and that we were not able to hold...
Nephrologists in Nepal take part in a training course as part of the ISN Kidney Care Network Program in collaboration with APSN The ISN and the Asian Pacific Society of Nephrology (APSN) have sustained a successful collaboration over the last decade working together to advance nephrology in the Asia-Pacific region, notably through the ISN Fellowship, Sister Renal Centers (SRC), Clinical...
New WCN’20 Content Available on the ISN Academy Additional WCN’20 posters, provided by presenters, are now available online at the ISN educational portal, the ISN Academy: consult posters, poster talks, and visual abstrats.
The ISN Social Media Team interviewed nephrologists from the US on coronavirus-related concerns and challenges in patient care; and nephrologists from the Netherlands on AKI in patients with severe COVID19 infections as well as the impact of the virus on kidney transplantation. Read first-hand accounts on the impact of the novel coronavirus on local communities...
Every month the ISN-ACT Team lists interesting new randomized controlled trials from around the world. Highlights: Keeping it simple with restriction: fluid restriction as good as diuretics and oral salt for SIAD Deciding HDF or HD: nothing to lose sleep over See the latest trials here.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, it is more important than ever to gather data to advocate for people with kidney disease. Recognizing this, the ISN’s SharE-RR (SHARing Expertise to support the set-up of Renal Registries) group, led by Fergus Caskey, has been working with its global network of registry experts to identify plans to establish...
At the World Congress of Nephrology 2017 in Mexico, ISN Fellows from around the world created a WhatsApp group to share experience and progress. Dr. Mohammed Elrggal, from the Nephrology Department at the Kidney and Urology Center in Alexandria, Egypt, initiated a collaborative research project exploring AKI practice patterns in all the Fellows’ home countries. The study...
The 12th Annual International Conference on Nephrology & Hypertension was organized by the Caribbean Institute of Nephrology, in Kingston, Jamaica, in January 2020. The conference, themed “Targeting Together Caribbean Kidney Issues,” was coordinated by Dr. Everard Barton from the University of the West Indies, Jamaica. Through its Continuing Medical Education (CME) Program, the ISN supported two speakers...
The Young Nephrologists Committee (YNC) is excited to welcome seven new members representing different regions of the globe: Alexandra Cambier, from France, is a pediatric nephrologist and immunologist with a specialty in pediatric IgA nephropathy. Her primary research interest is the identification of biomarkers for IgA nephropathy in children. She joined the YNC partly to...
ISN is pleased to announce that selected WCN’20 posters as PDFs, poster talks, and visual abstracts will go online at the ISN educational portal, the ISN Academy from April 9 and released in stages throughout the month.
The ISN Educational Ambassadors Program (EAP) was launched in 2009 to provide renal centers in developing countries with visiting international experts, recognized by the ISN, to provide specific hands-on training and help develop new skills or services needed in the host institution. Through this program, centers around the world receive the guidance needed to develop new services...
Please see the latest visual abstracts on COVID-19-related topics in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French. Kidney International paper examines therapeutic options for patients with kidney disease.
Henriette Tyse Nygård reports on Anemia in Dialysis Patients in Zanzibar as the first in a series of Nurses’ blog posts in recognition of 2020 as the Year of the Nurse and the Midwife. Anemia in dialysis patients in Zanzibar Henriette Tyse Nygård Dialysis nurse, Haukeland University Hospital, Norway; Dialysis nurse/teacher, MMH, Zanzibar; Student, Masters of Public Health, UIT, Norway;...
