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;...
World Kidney Day (WKD) organizers, ISN and IFKF, wish to thank all partners and collaborators who helped advance the WKD 2020 message highlighting the importance of preventive measures and the need for increased awareness in kidney disease prevention during this year’s event. The 15th edition of WKD was marked worldwide on March 12 by stakeholders, regional and...
The Editorial Team of Kidney International would like to reassure our readership that we will continue to bring you high quality information throughout the COVID-19 pandemic to help all of us deal with the crisis and provide high quality care to our patients. We have a mechanism in place to rapidly review and arrive...
At a meeting held in December 2019 in Delhi, India, between the ISN President and Executive Director, and the Indian Society of Nephrology Governing Body, ISN and the Indian SN agreed to extend and formalize their existing partnership to include collaboration on all ISN programs and activities, demonstrating their mutual commitment to the advancement...
ISN Kidney Health Professionals Working Group (KHP WG) members Rachel Walker and Paul Bennett submitted a paper that has been published as an editorial letter in the Renal Society of Australasia Journal 2020. The KHP WG is a comprehensive and complementary nursing and allied health professional group formed by ISN in 2017 to address the gap in the non-nephrologist...
To celebrate World Kidney Day (WKD), the ISN dressed the Manneken Pis fountain in Brussels in WKD colors to raise awareness of kidney health issues and activities. The ISN team explained to onlookers the significance of the costume as it was unveiled, encouraging the public to use #worldkidneyday to accompany photographs taken of the WKD Mannekin Pis. The ceremony was...
“High water intake and low urine osmolality are associated with favorable metabolic profile at a population level: low vasopressin secretion as a possible explanation” by ISN Hydration For Kidney Health (ISN-H4KH) Research Grant awardee, Sofia Enhörning, was published in the European Journal of Nutrition in February. Sofia Enhörning et al, investigated if low total water intake or high...
The International Society of Nephrology, in collaboration with the Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research, will hold the ISN 2020 Frontiers Meeting on ‘Complement-related kidney diseases: classification, genetics, and treatment’ from October 1-3, in Bergamo, Italy. This specialist meeting will focus on the two prototypical complement-mediated kidney diseases: atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome (aHUS), and C3 Glomerulopathies/Membranoproliferative Glomerulonephritis (C3G/MPGN),...
Prof. Philip KT Li Honorary Professor of Medicine, Chinese University of Hong Kong and President of Hong Kong College of Physicians, and represents ISN on the WKD Joint Steering Committee Dr. Guillermo García García Research Professor, University of Guadalajara Health Sciences Center, and Director of Nephrology, Hospital Civil de Guadalajara, Mexico, and represents IFKF on the WKD...
Novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is a newly discovered contagious disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 virus, primarily manifesting as an acute respiratory illness with interstitial and alveolar pneumonia, but can affect multiple organs such as kidney, heart, digestive tract, blood and nervous system. The rapidly spreading outbreak which first emerged in Wuhan, Hubei Province in China...
After graduation, ISN Sister Renal Centers or ISN-TTS Sister Transplant Centers partnerships can opt to support a third emerging center within the region through the ISN SRC Trio Program. Three recently graduated Trio partnerships demonstrate the valuable impact these collaborations can have on local nephrology capacity. Emerging Institution: Nephrology Institute, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou (NIZU), China; Supporting Institution: Institute of Nephrology, Peking...
As part of the Saving Young Lives (SYL) project, 17 doctor-nurse pairs from eight countries across Africa received a week-long training in Acute Peritoneal Dialysis during the SYL Renal Skills Course at Red Cross Children’s Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, from February 17 to 21, 2020. The course directors, Red Cross’s Mignon McCulloch and Alp Numanoglu,...
The fifteenth edition of World Kidney Day takes place on Thursday, March 12, 2020. This global campaign highlights the importance of kidneys to overall health and raises awareness of risk factors to reduce the frequency and impact of kidney disease and its associated health problems. The 2020 campaign focuses on preventive interventions to avoid the onset and progression of kidney...
