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CLINICAL NEPHROLOGY

• Diuréticos: mecanismo de acción
  Carlos G. Musso; Manuel F. Vilas
  Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires
  Argentina
  Se detallan tanto el segmento nefronal donde actúan los verdaderos diuréticos: alto techo (asa gruesa de Henle) y tiazídicos (conector), así como cuales son los mecanismos fisiológicos r...
• Actualización en Monitoreo Domiciliario de la Presión Arterial
  Gabriel Waisman; Jessica Barochiner; Lucas Aparicio; Paula Cuffaro
  Sección Hipertensión Arterial, Servicio de Clínica Médica
  Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires
  Argentina
  El diagnóstico de hipertensión arterial (HTA) debe basarse en múltiples mediciones realizadas en ocasiones separadas por un período de tiempo, en general en un mínimo de 2 mediciones enLas medici...
• An update on Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis
  Therese C Jungraithmayr
  Universitäts-Kinderklinik Innsbruck
  Innsbruck
  Austria
  Steroid resistant Nephrotic Syndrome with Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) as underlying histopathologic finding is diagnosed in 10-20% of all Nephrotic syndromes with a yearly incidence of a...
• Antiprotenuric and renoprotective effects of combined blockade of angiotensin II – endothelin I, from experimental models to clinical practice
  Alfons Segarra
  Servicio de Nefrología Hospital Vall d'Hebrón
  Barcelona
  Spain
  Chronic proteinuric nephropathies that result in substantial damage of glomerular, structures, usually develop an inexorable progression to end-stage renal disease which is independent of the init...
• Atypical clinical manifestations of acute poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis
  Toru Watanabe, M.D., Ph.D.
  Department of Pediatrics
  Niigata City General Hospital
  Japan
  Patients with Acute poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis (APSGN) sometimes exhibit atypical or unusual clinical manifestations. Atypical manifestations of APSGN include the co-occurrence of immune-med...
• Beneficial effects of sodium restriction on therapy response in CKD.
  Gerjan Navis
  Dept of Medicine UMCG, Groningen
  Netherlands
  Correction of blood pressure and proteinuria by blockade of the renin- angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS) is therapy of choice for chronic kidney disease, to prevent progressive renal function los...
• Bioimpedance in Nephrology. What is new?
  Secundino Cigarrán
  Nephrology Section
  Hospital Da Costa
  Burela. Lugo.
  Spain
  El conocimiento de la composición corporal (CC), por su implicación biológica, es de capital importancia tanto en la salud como en los procesos crónicos. Las mediciones del peso como parámetro ev...
• Biosimilars: the regulatory frame in UE
  Paola Minghetti
  Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences P. Pratesi
  Università degli Studi di Milano
  Italy
  The patent expirations for many biotechnological substances used in medicinal products have prompted the interest of many industries in the development of copies of biological medicinal produ...
• Chronic Kidney Disease in Type 2 Diabetes
  Giuseppe Pugliese
  Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine
  La Sapienza University
  Rome
  Italy
  Type 2 diabetes is the main cause of end-stage renal disease worldwide. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) in type 2 diabetes is more heterogeneous than in type 1 diabetes both anatomically and clinically. ...
• Clinical Aspects of Metabolic Acidosis
  Michael Wiederkehr
  Dallas Nephrology Associates
  United States of America
  Metabolic acidosis implies the presence of excess acid in the body. Depending on the clinical scenario, the pH may be low (acidemia), normal, or even high, as can be seen in mixed acid/base disorders....
• Clinical Impact of Renal dysfunction in Heart failure
  Palazzuoli Alberto; Benincasa Susanna; Grothgar Stefanie; Di Sipio Pasquale; Paganini Giovanni; Pellegrini Marco; Nuti Ranuccio
  Dept of Internal Medicine and Metabolic Diseases, Cardiology Section
  University of Siena
  Le Scotte Hospital Viale Bracci
  Italy
  Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is associated with a significant increase of death and cardiovascular mortality. However the exact mechanism by which CKD impairs the cardiovascular outcome is not well es...
• Comportamiento de la enfermedad renal crónica en pacientes con afección cerebrovascular
  MSc. Dr. Jorge Lopez Romero; MSc Dr. Orlando Rodríguez Hernández; Dr. Léster Quiroz Durán; Lic. Rafael Machado Rodríguez MSc; Dra. Isandra viera Pérez. MSC; Dr. Eduardo Fernandez Ruiz
  Hospital Universitario "Arnaldo Milián Castro"
  Villa Clara
  Cuba
  Se realizó un estudio descriptivo y retrospectivo en pacientes hospitalizados por enfermedad cerebrovascular en el Hospital Universitario “Arnaldo Milián Castro”, desde enero a diciembre del 20...
• Comportamiento de mortalidad en el servicio de nefrología. Años 2009-2010. Las Tunas.
  Dr. José Luis Rodríguez López; Dr. Omar Batista Guerrero
  Hospital G. Doc. “Dr. Ernesto Guevara de la Serna”.
  Cuba
  Uno de los problemas fundamentales que enfrenta la Nefrología en la época actual es el creciente número de pacientes con Insuficiencia Renal Crónica Terminal que requieren tratamientos sustitutiv...
• Derived Functional Measure of Cardiovascular Status?
  Michael R. Pinsky, MD, CM, Dr hc, FCCP, FCCM
  Vice-Chair, Academic Affairs
  Professor of Critical Care Medicine, Bioengineering, Cardiovascular Disease and Anesthesiology
  University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
  United States of America
  How to identify patients who are becoming hemodynamically unstable before they progress too far?How to determine the most appropriate therapy to reverse the primary cause for impending circulatory sho...
• Diagnosis and treatment of ANCA associated vasculitis
  David Jayne
  Vasculitis and Lupus Clinic
  Addenbrooke's Hospital
  Cambridge
  United Kingdom
  Systemic vasculitis is a heterogeneous group of conditions characterised by inflammation of blood vessels. The introduction of glucocorticoids and cyclophosphamide as immunosuppression transformed sys...
• Diagnosis of Wegener's granulomatosis
  Miguel Rodrigues Leal
  Director Medico Nacional da Diaverum
  Portugal
  Wegener’s granulomatosis is a vasculitis syndrome, a clinicopathologic process that leads to inflamation of and damage to blood vessels, with frequent compromise of the vessel lumen and subsequent i...
• Diagnostic approach and pathology of Fabry nephropathy
  João Paulo Ferreira da Silva Oliveira
  Centro Hospitalar de São João
  Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade do Porto
  Portugal
  Fabry disease is the lysosomal storage disorder that results from deficiency of alpha-galactosidase, an enzyme involved in the catabolic processing of globotriaosylceramide (Gb3) and related neutral g...
• Differentiation of SIADH from Cerebral/Renal Salt Wasting (C/RSW): Emerging Value of Fractional Urate Excretion
  John K. Maesaka, MD
  Chief Emeritus, Nephrology. Director of Research.
  Winthrop University Hospital
  Mineola, New York
  United States of America
  The current approach to the diagnosis and treatment of hyponatremia is in a state of flux, largely because of an unresolved controversy regarding the relative prevalence of the syndrome of inappropria...
• Diffuse and Focal Proliferative Lupus Nephritis Treatment Review. The Role of Mycophenolate mofetil.
  Dr. Jesús Garrido
  Unidade de Nefrologia e Diálise
  Hospital São Teotónio Viseu
  Clinical Director. Diaverum - Unidade da Régua
  Portugal
  Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a complex, multisystem autoimmune disorder. Lupus nephritis (LN) occurs in ~35% of adults with SLE and predicts poor survival. Outcomes are affected by ethnicity,...
• Early Detection of Renal Microvascular Disease in Essential for Restoring Renal Function in Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD)
  Professor Narisa Futrakul, MD, PhD; Emeritus Professor Prasit Futrakul MD
  Faculty of Medicine
  Chulalongkorn University
  Bangkok
  Thailand
  Recognition and treatment of CKD are usually late (CKD stages 3-5) due to the inappropriate definition of CKD and insensitive diagnostic marker such as serum creatinine determination. Treat...
• Early intervention in Acute Kidney Injury: The promise and the challengers
  Dr John W Pickering
  Senior Research Fellow
  Christchurch Kidney Research Group
  Department of Medicine
  University of Otago Christchurch
  New Zealand
  For the past decade nephrologists desire is NAKED (Novel Acute Kidney injury Early Detection). The motivation is the tremendous toll of Acute Kidney Injury (AKI), and the failure to do anything about ...
• Effects of strenuous exercise on glomerular filtration rate
  Marco Machado
  Laboratório de Estudos do Movimento Humano (FUNITA)
  Laboratório de Fisiologia e Biocinética (UNIG)
  Itaperuna, RJ
  Brazil
  Strenuous, overexertion exercise can result in muscle damage evidenced by delayed-onset muscle soreness, strength loss, weakness, tenderness and increased blood levels of muscle proteins such as creat...
• Electrolytes and Pregnancy
  Amelia R. Bernasconi
  Hospital General de Agudos "Dr. J. A. Fernandez"
  Argentina
  Hormonal and hemodynamic changes characterize the pregnant state Pregnancy is a condition of chronic volume overload This hyperdynamic state is associated with * Haemodilution * Decreased peripheria...
• Enfermedad renal crónica en pacientes oncológicos
  MSc. Dr. Jorge López Romero; MSc. Dra. Maitee López González; MSc. Dra. Isandra Viera Pérez; Dr. Paulino Hernández Hernández. MSc; Dr. Eduardo Fernández Ruiz
  Hospital Universitario "Arnaldo Milián Castro"
  Villa Clara
  Cuba
  Se realizó un estudio descriptivo con componentes analíticos y retrospectivos, fueron incluidos en el estudio los pacientes que fallecieron con cáncer -a los que se les realizó necropsia- en los ...
• Estimation of Kidney Function For Drug Dosing in Obesity
  Manjunath (Amit) Pai, PharmD
  Associate Professor
  Albany College of Pharmacy
  United States of America
  The average weight for adults in the United States has increased from 69.7 kg in 1960 to 80.8 kg in 2002. Obesity defined as a body mass index (BMI) ≥ 30 kg/m2 is now prevalent in 33% of the US adu...
• Estudio epidemiológico de ERC, ECVs, DM Y HTA en personas con riesgo. Pinar del Río. Cuba
  Dr. Leonel Soto León; Ldo. Eduardo Soto Quiñones; Dr. Raúl Herrera Valdés
  Hospital General Universitario "Abel Santamaría". Pinar del Río
  Cuba
  La provincia de Pinar del Río ha sido pionera en el país en la ejecución de las actividades de prevención en Enfermedad Renal Crónica (ERC) en los tres niveles de atención, primaria, secundar...
• Farmacoterapia antidiabética no insulínica en el cardiópata: perfiles de seguridad
  Enrique Fisman(1); Ricardo J. Esper(2); Alberto Toruncha(3); Alexander Tenenbaum(4)
  1 y 4. Facultad de Medicina Sackler, Universidad de Tel-Aviv
  2. Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
  3. Instituto Superior de Ciencias Médicas, Universidad de la Habana, Cuba
  Israel
  La insulinoresistencia constituye el trasfondo de una serie de factores vinculados tanto al desarrollo de la diabetes como de la enfermedad cardiovascular. Estos factores incluyen influencias genétic...
• Free light chain removal in myeloma kidney
  Dr. Colin A Hutchison
  Consultant Nephrologist
  Renal Institute of Birmingham
  University of Birmingham and University Hospital Birmingham
  United Kingdom
  Renal recovery from myeloma kidney is directly linked to an early reduction in serum free light chains. To enable this to occur an early diagnosis and rapid initiation of disease specific treatment is...
• Functional data from renal Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
  Isky Gordon
  Imaging and Physics unit
  UCL Institute of Child Health
  London
  United Kingdom
  Renal MRI offers the possibility of detailed anatomical images. Advances in data acquisition and processing will allow estimation of perfusion of each kidney, oxygen utilisation and behaviour of wa...
• HIV-Related Renal Diseases
  Michael J. Ross, M.D.
  Associate Professor of Medicine
  Director, Nephrology Fellowship Program
  Mount Sinai School of Medicine
  United States of America
  HIV infected patients are at increased risk of acute and chronic renal injury and kidney disease is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in these patients. While the increasingly wides...
• Hantavirus Nephropathy: an underestimated but surging form of AKI in Europe.
  J. Clement; P. Maes; M. Barrios; W. Verstraeten; J-M Aerts; S. Amirpour; M Van Ranst
  University of Leuven
  Belgium
  Hantavirus are emerging rodent-borne viral pathogens causing so-called “hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome” (HFRS) in the Old World, and “hantavirus cardio-pulmonary syndrome”(HCPS) in the ...
• Henoch-Schonlein purpura nephritis
  Dr. Paul Joseph T Galutira
  Section of Pediatric Nephrology
  University of Santo Tomas Hospital
  Manila
  Philippines
  Henoch-Schönlein purpura (HSP) is the most common vasculitis in childhood. It is often a self-limited condition characterized by nonthrombocytopenic purpura, bowel angina, arthritis/arthralgia, and n...
• Hipouricemia
  Santiago Suria González; Noemí Esparza Martín
  Servicio de Nefrología del Hospital Universitario Insular de Gran Canaria
  Spain
  La hipouricemia se presenta en el 0,8% de los pacientes hospitalizados, no tiene síntomas y no requiere tratamiento, pero puede asociarse a tubulopatías y a otras enfermedades.El 70% de la eliminaci...
• Importance and methods for early diagnosis of chronic kidney disease: relationship between Nephrology and Primary Care
  Importancia y métodos de diagnóstico precoz de la enfermedad renal crónica: relación entre nefrología y asistencia primaria
  Importância e métodos de diagnóstico precoce da doença renal crônica: relação entre nefrologia e cuidados de atenção primária
  Da Silva I; Santiago M; Urbina P; Silva R; Furlano M; Ayasreh N; Del Pozo M; Cabrera C; Rivera L; Machado D; Díaz M; Trinidad P F; Llama P; Ballarín J; Calero F; Jordi Bover
  Fundació Puigvert, Hospital de la Santa Cruz y San Pablo. Investigaciones Biomédicas Sant Pau (IBS). Barcelona, España. REDinREN, Instituto de Investigación Carlos III.
  *Hospital Siglo XXI, México DF, México.
  Spain
  Different epidemiological studies have revealed that chronic kidney disease (CKD) is an important public health problem. Its presence has been associated with an increased r...
• Incidencia de Glomerulopatías en el Uruguay
  Dr. Oscar Noboa
  Prof. Agregado del Centro de Nefrología Hospital de Clínicas Facultad de Medicina Universidad de la República, Montevideo
  On Behalf of the Uruguayan Program for diagnosis and prevention of glomerulopathies
  Uruguay
  The Uruguayan Registry of Glomerulopathies began its activity in 1974 and since 1985 is a national registry. The aim of this report is to analyze the incidence and the variations in frequencies of the...
• Is there a role for dialysis in the prevention of contrast-induced nephropathy?
  Amay Parikh
  Department of Medicine
  Columbia University Medical Center
  New York, New York
  United States of America
  A description of contrast, contrast-induced nephropathy, the mechanism of contrast removal, and the studies that answer the clinical question of the role of dialysis in preventing contrast induced nep...
• Kidney stones changing epidemiology
  Dr Kiriaki Stamatelou
  Director Dialysis
  Kyanous Stavros Hospital
  Greece
  The last decades have seen a significant rise in the prevalence of kidney stones, mainly attributed to the changing dietary and living habits of the populations in the developed countries. Environment...
• Linfoma renal. Presentación de un caso. Breve revisión de la literatura.
  Walter Marcial Martínez Rodríguez; Israel Borrajero Martínez; Magali Rodríguez Concepción; Geidi de la Caridad Gil López; Olga Forteza Trujillo; Solángel Rúa Martínez; Ana Gloria Pérez Reyes
  Universidad de Ciencias Medicas “Ernesto Che Guevara de la Serna”
  Hospital Docente “Dr. León Cuervo Rubio”
  Cuba
  El linfoma renal es poco frecuente. Puede ser primario o secundario. El secundario es más frecuente que el primario. El concepto de linfoma renal primario es un linfoma sin afectación extra-renal. S...
• Low salt diet: how to effectively reduce the sodium intake?
  Vincenzo Bellizzi; Simona Laurino
  Division of Nephrology, Dialysis & Transplantation
  University Hospital of Salerno
  Italy
  Prevalence of hypertension is dramatically high in the general population, interesting at least 25% of the adult population and it is predicted to increase worldwide to 60% by 2025. Hypertension is th...
• Luminal alkalinization attenuates proteinuria-induced proximal tubular damage
  Tomokazu SOUMA, MD
  Division of Nephrology, Endocrinology, and Vascular Medicine
  Department of Medicine
  Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine
  Japan
  A highly acidic environment surrounds proximal tubular cells as a result of their reabsorption of HCO(3)(-) to maintain acid-base homeostasis. It is unclear whether this proximal luminal acidity affec...
• Moderate Impairment in Renal Function - A Reversible Complication of Bezafibrates Treatment to Patients without Previous Kidney Disease
  Gideon Charach, MD
  Department of Medicine
  Tel Aviv-Sourasky Medical Center
  Israel
  The present study was undertaken to examine if the observations of an adverse effect of fibrates on kidney are correct and, if so, to determine the magnitude of this effect of bezafibrate on serum cre...
• Morphologic patterns of focal and segmental glomerulosclerosis: controversial aspects and prognostic implications
  Luis F. Arias, MD, PhD
  Universidad de Antioquia
  Medellin
  Colombia
  Focal and segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) has a wide clinical and morphological spectrum, and its prognosis is variable, with patients developing end-stage renal disease and patients with complete...
• NPHS2 gene mutation results in 700 Turkish SRNS children and genotype-phenotype correlations
  Prof. Afig Berdeli
  Department of Molecular Genetics
  Ege University Faculty of Medicine
  Izmir
  Turkey
  The visceral glomerular epithelial cell, podocyte, lines the outer aspect of the glomerular basement membrane (GBM) constituting the final barrier to protein loss. All forms of nephrotic syndrome are ...
• Nefritis lúpica
  Dr Miguel A Nadal
  División Nefrología
  Hospital de Clínicas José de San Martín
  Universidad de Buenos Aires
  Argentina
  Se presenta la experiencia en biopsia renal (BR) de 236 pacientes con nefritis lúpica (NL). Las clases III y IV representan el 70% del total. Las formas clínicas renales fueron por orden de frecuenc...
• Nephropathic cystinosis (treatment and long-term outcome)
  Prof. Dr. Elena Levtchenko, MD, PhD
  Pediatric Nephrologist
  University Hospital Leuven
  Belgium
  Cystinosis: an autosomal recessive disease caused by lysosomal accumulation of cystine due to defective exodus of cystine out of the lysosomes Cystinosis: “orphan disease” –incidence ~1:100,...
• New insights into uric acid effects on the progression and prognosis of chronic kidney disease
  Dr Vassilis Filiopoulos; Dr Dimitrios Hadjiyannakos; Dr Dimosthenis Vlassopoulos
  Nephrology Department
  ‘Amalia Fleming’ General Hospital
  Athens
  Greece
  Hyperuricemia is particularly common in patients with arterial hypertension, metabolic syndrome or kidney disease. Its role, however, as a risk factor for both renal and cardiovascular out...
• New trends in IgA Nephropathy
  Prof. Francesco Paolo Schena, MD, FASN
  Professor of Nephrology
  Renal, Dialysis and Transplant Unit
  Department of Emergency and Organ Transplant
  University of Bari
  Italy
  Immunoglobulin A (IgA) nephropathy is the most common form of primary glomerulonephritis worldwide. It is characterized by recurrent episodes of microscopic hematuria concomitant with upper respirator...
• Objetivos del tratamiento antihipertensivo en la enfermedad renal
  Nicolás Roberto Robles
  Unidad de Hipertensión Arterial
  Hospital Infanta Cristina
  Badajoz
  Spain
  La publicación de los resultados del estudio ACCORD y, más específicamente referido a enfermos renales, los resultados tardíos del estudio AASK ponen en cuestión la necesidad de un estricto contr...
• Pelvic-ureteral stenosis: A case report with a clinical sign not previously described in the literature. / Estenosis Pelviureteral: Presentación de un caso con presencia de un signo clínico no descrito en la literatura
  Dr. Roberto Gabriel Albín-Cano
  Profesor de Medicina Interna
  Facultad Hospital Universitario “Calixto García”
  Departamento de Medicina Interna del Hospital Clínico-Quirúrgico Freyre de Andrade
  Cuba
  We present a patient of 34 years old, who was admitted at the Freyre de Andrade hospital in Havana by intense pain associated with visible tumor in right upper quadrant of the abdomen and tender to pa...
• Plasma Cell Dyscrasia; LCDD vs Immunotactoid glomerulopathy
  Wael L. Jebur; Hareth M. Saeed; Khalid Abdulla
  Nephrology Department, Al-Karamah Teaching Hospital, Baghdad
  Iraq
  Light chain deposit disease is a plasma cell disorder characterized by production of a large amount of monoclonal immunoglobulin light chain or part of it, which is usually deposited as an amorphous ...
• Pore to self destruction – from red blood cell to kidney
  Helle Annette Prætorius
  Center for Salt and Water Research
  University of Aarhus
  Denmark
  E.coli is the dominant facultative bacterium in the normal intestinal flora, but is also responsible for the majority of serious extra-intestinal infections as neonatal meningitis, peritonitis, gram-n...
• Potential Pharmacologic Therapy for Cystinuria
  A. Sahota(1), M. Yang(1), S. Shikhel(1), L. Serrano(1), M.R. Lewis(2), M.D. Ward(3), J.A. Tischfield(1), D.S. Goldfarb(4)
  1) Dept Genetics, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ
  2) Imperial College, London, UK
  3) Dept Chemistry, New York University, NY, NY
  4) NYU Langone Medical Center, NY, NY
  United States of America
  Treatments for cystinuria have advanced little in the past 30 years. Atomic force microscopy has been used recently to demonstrate that effective inhibition of cystine crystal growth is accomplished a...
• Prediction of functional outcome and treatments responsiveness by urinary proteins in IgA Nephropathy
  Claudio Bazzi, MD
  Fondazione D’Amico per la Ricerca sulle Malattie Renali
  Milan
  Italy
  IgA nephropathy (IgAN) is the most frequent type of glomerulonephritis (GN); it is characterized by a wide variability of clinical presentation and functional, histologic and proteinuric features; abo...
• Prevention of catheter associated urinary tract infections
  Dr. Suzan Sanavi
  University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences
  Akhavan Physical Spine Center
  Iran
  Urinary bladder catheters are used for urine drainage or as a means to collect urine for measurement. Many clinical situations are appropriate for the placement of indwelling urethral catheters, but t...
• Relation of the CD36 gene polymorphisms to the risk of nephropathy among moroccans
  Tarik SQALLI HOUSSAINI (1, 3), Karim OULDIM (2), Fatima Zohra SQUALI (3)
  (1) Nephrology Department – Hassan II University Hospital
  (2) Medical Genetics Department – Hassan II University Hospital
  (3) Faculty of Sciences Dhar El Mahraz
  Fez
  Morocco
  CD36, also called thrombospondin receptor and platelet glycoprotein IV (GPIV), is a membrane glycoprotein that is found on platelets, monocytes and umbilical vein endothelial cells. CD36 acts as a rec...
• Renal anemia (use of IV iron) PENDING
  Dr. Pablo Amair
  Hospital Universitario de Caracas
  Venezuela
  
• Renal artery stenosis- to treat or not to treat?
  Bernd Krumme, MD
  Deutsche Klinik fur Diagnostik
  Fachbereich Nephrologie und Hypertensiologie
  Wiesbaden
  Germany
  If we approach to the topic of renal vascular disease, we have to distinguish different entities in this field. Renal artery stenosis may occur alone as isolated anatomical renal artery stenosis or in...
• Renoprotective role of ultra- high doses of Angiotensin Receptor Blockers (ARBs) in proteinuric nephropathies
  Prof Pedro Aranda Lara
  Unidad de Hipertensión y Prevención de Riesgo Vascular, Servicio de Nefrología
  Hospital Regional Universitario Carlos Haya
  Málaga
  Spain
  Therapeutic objectives in patients with proteinuric nephroapthies are focused on reducing their high cardiovascular mortality risk and stoping or slow down the progression to ESRD.Plasma and tisular ...
• Role of streptococcal proteins in acute poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis
  Jesús A Mosquera
  Sección de Inmunologia y Biología Celular
  Instituto de Investigaciones Clíica Dr. Américo Negrette
  Venezuela
  Circulating streptococcal antigens bind to the kidney during streptococcal infection. Cationic streptococcal erythrogenic toxin type B (ETB) and its precursor (ETBP) are largely produced by nephritoge...
• Sex Differences in Control of Blood Pressure
  Jane F. Reckelhoff, Ph.D.
  Billy S. Guyton Distinguished Professor
  Director, Women's Health Research Center
  University of Mississippi Medical Center
  United States of America
  Recent studies have shown that there are significant differences between men and women and the prevalence and age at which they exhibit risk factors for developing cardiovascular disease (CVD). Men t...
• Sickle Cell Disease and Nephropathy: retarding progression to ESRD
  Fatiu .A. Arogundade; MBBS, FMCP, FWACP, ISN Fellow
  Reader in Medicine
  Honorary Consultant Physician & Nephrologist
  Department of Medicine
  Obafemi Awolowo University
  Teaching Hospitals Complex
  Nigeria
  Sickle cell haemoglobinopathy remains the commonest genetic disorder with significant geographical and racial predilection. Sickle cell Anaemia (SCA) is the most severe form of the disease with profou...
• Sindromes renales asociados con la infección del VIH
  Dra Tania Ramírez González
  Hospital Arnaldo Milian
  Cuba
  OBJETIVO: Profundizar en el conocimiento sobre la afectación renal de VIH en el riñón contribuyendo de esta forma al mejor manejo de esta para lograr una mayor calidad de vida del paciente afecto d...
• The Reno-protective effect of Carum carvi (Black zeera) Seeds in Streptozotocin induced Diabetic Nephropathy in rodents
  Soban Sadiq
  Department of Pharmacology
  University of Health Sciences
  Khayaban-e-Jamia Punjab, Lahore
  Pakistan
  Certain medicinal plants have been reported to have their effect on various experimentally induced diseases; diabetes mellitus (DM) is one of them. DM in poorly controlled patients is associated with ...
• The Syndrome Of Rapid-Onset End-Stage Renal Disease (SORO-ESRD) - A Worldwide Perspective
  Macaulay Onuigbo MD MSc FWACP FASN FBC
  Associate Professor, College of Medicine
  Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
  Nephrologist/Transplant Physician/Hypertension Specialist, Midelfort Clinic, Mayo Health System
  Eau Claire, WI
  United States of America
  The syndrome of rapid-onset end-stage renal disease (SORO-ESRD) is the unpredictable and unanticipated accelerated progression from a priori stable CKD to irreversible ESRD, requiring renal replacemen...
• The diagnostic challenge of acute kidney failure: a case of acute interstitial nephritis
  Nuno Rocha Pereira; Sofia Correia Pinto; Inês Fontoura; António Vieira Lopes
  Centro Hospitalar de São João
  Portugal
  Acute kidney disease has a broad spectrum of possible causes that can be divided in several categories: pre-renal disease, post-renal disease, vascular disease, glomerular disease and tubulo-interstit...
• The difficulty to have a really correct measure and estimate of the actual Body Surface Area (BSA) can induce misconstructions of actual renal function and of the best dialysis prescription when indexed on BSA
  Giancarlo Ruggieri
  Former Chief of Nephrology Unit at San Giacomo Hospital
  Rome
  Italy
  The need to correctly measure and estimate Body Surface Area (BSA) is due to the wide use of this variable for indexing many organic functions, including the glomerular filtration rate (GFR) and the ...
• The many molecular and clinical aspects of the distal renal tubular acidosis
  Sabrina Giglio MD*; Ivana Pela MD**
  * Medical Genetics Unit, Meyer Children’s University Hospital, Florence
  ** Paediatric Clinic Unit, Department of Sciences for Woman and Child's Health, University of Florence
  Italy
  Inherited distal renal tubular acidosis (dRTA) is a genetic condition with hypokalemia, hyperchloremic metabolic acidosis and inability to decrease urinary pH to Both autosomal dominant and recessive...
• The value of repeat biopsies in lupus nephritis
  Franco Ferrario
  Director of Nephropathology Center
  San Gerardo Hospital Monza
  Milan Bicocca University
  Italy
  Repeat renal biopsy has a role in validating the 2002 revision of the classification of lupus nephritis (LN) by the International Society of Nephrology and Renal Pathology Society .. This...
• Therapy of Adult Minimal Change Disease
  Jai Radhakrishnan
  Department of Medicine
  Columbia University Medical Center
  United States of America
  Minimal change disease accounts for ~ 10% of idiopathic syndrome in adults. The response to therapy is slower with a higher rate of non responders. This session will discuss the principles of therapy...
• Treatment of anemia with ESA following the TREAT study
  Lucia Del Vecchio
  Department of Nephrology, Dialysis and Renal Transplant
  Ospedale A. Manzoni
  Lecco
  Italy
  Anemia, which is a frequent and early complication of CKD, not only impairs quality of life, but is also an independent risk factor for adverse cardiovascular outcomes. Starting from the assumption th...
• Tuberculosis in patients on dialysis
  Dr Ghulam H Malik,MD,DM,FACP
  Director/Senior Consultant Nephrologist
  Well care Medical Center
  Srinagar
  Kashmir
  India
  The prevalance of tuberculosis (TB) in dialysis patients is many times higher than in the general population of the region. The causes of increased risk of TB in dialysis patients have been attributed...
• Urinary Haufen-Testing as a Novel Non-Invasive Tool to diagnose Polyomavirus Nephropathy and to assess Disease Severity
  Nickeleit V; Singh HK
  Professor of Pathology
  Division of Nephropathology
  The University of North Carolina Medical School at Chapel Hill
  Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
  Division of Nephropathology
  United States of America
  Our presentation describes a novel urinary test detecting cast-like aggregates of polyomaviruses - termed "Haufen" - in voided urine samples. We illustrate that "Haufen" shedding is highly characteris...
• Warfarin related nephropathy - a new entity in kidney diseases
  SV Brodsky(1), A. Ozcan(1,2), K. Ware(1), E. Calomeni(1), T. Nadasdy(1), A. Satoskar(1), G. Nadasdy(1), B. Rovin(3), L. Hebert(3).
  Departments of (1)Pathology and (3)Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH;
  2. Department of Pathology, Gulhane Military Medical Academy, Ankara, Turkey
  United States of America
  We had reported that excessive anticoagulation in patients on warfarin therapy (INR>3.0) can result in acute kidney injury (AKI). Morphologic findings in kidney biopsies from these patients included g...

CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE: MINERAL AND BONE DISORDER (CKD-MBD)

• Control del HPTS en pacientes en diálisis peritoneal
  Carmen Sánchez González MD PhD
  Departamento de Nefrología
  Hospital Universitario La Princesa
  Madrid
  Spain
  La enfermedad metabólica ósea asociada a la enfermedad renal crónica permanece como una de las principales complicaciones tanto en pacientes pre-diálisis como en aquellos que ya iniciaron terapia ...
• Effects of lowering dialysate calcium concentration from 1.75 to1,5 mmol/L on mineral metabolism and hemodynamic Parameters in haemodialysis patients
  D.El Kabbaj*1 ; A.Alaayoud*2; A.Hamzi2; I.Akhmouch.2; Z.Oualim1
  1 Nephrology Dialysis Kidney transplantation Department, Military Hospital Mohammed V Rabat
  2 Dialysis Department, 1st Military Medical Center, Agadir
  Morocco
  Studies have suggested that a dialysate Calcium (DCa) of 1.5 mmol/l is a compromise between bone protection and cardiovascular risk. The aim of this prospective study was to investigate the effect on ...
• El receptor de Vitamina D y la pared vascular en la uremia
  Sara Panizo MSc; Eva Parisi PhD; Anna Cardus PhD; Petya Valcheva MSc; Elvira Fernandez Md, PhD; Jose M Valdivielso PhD
  Laboratorio de Nefrología Experimental
  Institut de Recerca Biomedica de Lleida
  Hospital Universitari Arnau de Vilanova
  Lleida
  Spain
  Atherosclerosis is a complex process characterized by an increase in the wall thickness and the hardening of the arteries. It affects media and intima layers of the artery and is caused by accumulatio...
• Fracturas de cadera en Hemodiálisis: incidencia, factores de riesgo, causas y prevención
  Prof. Armando Luis Negri, MD, FACP
  Instituto de Investigaciones Metabólicas
  Cátedra de postgrado en Osteología
  Universidad del Salvador
  Buenos Aires
  Argentina
  El riesgo de fractura, especialmente de cadera, de los pacientes en hemodiálisis se encuentra en aumento. Se analizarán sus causas y se presentarán posibles estrategias de prevención....
• The exchangeable calcium pool: physiology and pathophysiology in chronic kidney disease
  Gert Mayer
  Director Department of Internal Medicine IV (Nephrology and Hypertension)
  Medical University Innsbruck
  Austria
  Excessive soft tissue and vascular calcifications are typical complications of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and disorders of phosphate homeostasis are considered to be a major contributor to the patho...
• Vitamin D and chronic kidney disease stage 5: a new paradigm?
  Heaf JG (1), Joffe P (2), Marckmann P (3)
  1. University of Copenhagen at Herlev
  2) VikTeam, Esbjerg
  3) Odense University Hospital
  Denmark
  Vitamin D receptor agonists (VDRA) are currently recommended for the treatment of secondary hyperparathyroidism in chronic kidney disease (CKD) stage 5. It is considered to be contraindicated in the p...
• Vitamin K: Bone Vascular axis in CKD Patients
  Maria Fusaro
  CNR Aging Section
  Institute of Neuroscience
  Padua
  Italy
  Vitamin K denotes a group of lipophilic vitamins determining post- translational modification of proteins. There are two main forms of vitamin K: vitamin K1 (phylloquinone, found in vegetables); vitam...

HEMODIALYSIS AND APHERESIS

• Access to Science in Hemodialysis- Defining Cannulation Readiness
  Sandra Donnelly
  Department of Medicine
  University of Toronto
  Canada
  Objectives 1. To understand the physiologic and biomechanical underpinnings of vascular remodeling 2. To quantitatively define the parameters of cannulation readiness...
• Ankle-brachial index is associated with vascular calcifications and cardiovascular risk in dialysis patients
  Teresa Adragão
  Nephrology Department
  Santa Cruz Hospital, Carnaxide
  Portugal
  Peripheral artery disease (PAD) is highly prevalent in dialysis patients but is frequently underdiagnosed. DOPPS (Combe C et al, Am J Kidney Dis 2009) has demonstrated in a prospective observational s...
• Apheresis
  Eirini Grapsa
  University of Athens
  Greece
  Apheresis is a Greek word (ἀφαίρεσις) which means removal of something from somewhere and has been used as a term for the first time in 1914 by Abel et al. Apheresis, as a term, is used wor...
• Arteriovenous fistula puncture: an essential factor for hemodialysis efficiency
  Miguel Moyses Neto
  Faculty of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto
  University of São Paulo
  Brazil
  Vascular access that will provide adequate blood flow is necessary for patients with end stage renal disease submitted to hemodialysis. The arteriovenous fistula (AVF),created in 1966 by Brescia and C...
• Atrial fibrillation and warfarin in hemodialysis: Balancing the risk/benefit ratio
  Manish M Sood MD FRCPC
  Assistant Professor of Medicine
  University of Manitoba
  Director of Hemodialysis
  St Boniface General Hospital
  Winnipeg
  Canada
  The risk and benefits of oral anticoagulants (OAC) is well established in the general population with atrial fibrillation. In the ESRD population, the risk/benefit profile is not established due to th...
• Bacteriemia en hemodiálisis asociada a catéter permanente: estudio de la colonización endoluminal
  F. García-Martín; A. Rodríguez-Aranda; M. Praga; F. Chaves
  Hospital Universitario Doce de Octubre. Madrid
  Spain
  Introducción: Actualmente entre el 30-40% de los pacientes en hemodiálisis (HD) se dializan a través de un catéter permanente (CPC), siendo la bacteriemia relacionada con el catéter (BRC) la comp...
• Bioimpedance in Nephrology. What is new?
  Secundino Cigarrán
  Nephrology Section
  Hospital Da Costa
  Burela. Lugo.
  Spain
  El conocimiento de la composición corporal (CC), por su implicación biológica, es de capital importancia tanto en la salud como en los procesos crónicos. Las mediciones del peso como parámetro ev...
• Care for the person with arteriovenous fistula: model for continuous improvement
  Clemente Neves Sousa(1); João  Apóstolo(2); Mª Henriqueta Jesus Silva Figueiredo(1); Mª Manuela F. P. S. Martins(1)
  (1) Escola Superior de Enfermagem do Porto,  Porto
  (2) Escola Superior de Enfermagem de Coimbra
  Portugal
  The existence of an individualized approach of the person with arteriovenous fistula (AVF), underpinned by a model, allows the nurse to develop knowledge relevant to their practice. It presents a mode...
• Cateter axilar
  César Augusto Restrepo Valencia
  Universidad de Caldas
  Manizales
  Colombia
  La fístula Arteriovenosa (A-V) constituye la mejor alternativa para practicar la hemodiálisis crónica. Sin embargo existe una población importante de pacientes en los cuales es imposible prac...
• Catheter Locking Solutions, What Do You Need to Know?
  Yousef A. Boobes, MD
  Deputy Medical Director for Royal and Governmental Affairs
  S. Consultant Nephrologist
  Tawam Hospital
  Al Ain
  United Arab Emirates
  Tunneled catheters are widely used for the provision of hemodialysis. Long-term catheter survival is limited by catheter-related infections and thrombosis. A wide variation of solutions is used to ‘...
• Central Veins Stenosis in Hemodialysis Access
  Anil Agarwal, MD
  Division of Nephrology
  Department of Internal Medicine
  Ohio State University
  Columbus
  United States of America
  Objectives: • Illustrate case of CVS • Briefly discuss etiology and diagnosis of CVS • Review approach to management of CVS – Conservative – Endovascular – Surgical • Suggest prevention...
• Changing quality of dialysate: effects of ultrapure dialysis fluid on oxidative stress marker
  D.Elkabbaj; R.Eljaoudi; M.Elrafsa; Z.Oualim
  Hopital Militaire d'instruction Mohammed V
  Rabat
  Morocco
  Inflammation is a common feature of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) and it has been recognized that about 30% to 50% of ESRD patients, either on medical management or dialysis therapy, have serologic e...
• Common misconceptions on hemodialysis quantification in century XXI: from praxis to concepts
  Manuel Prado-Velasco PhD
  Associate Professor
  Multilevel Modelling and Emerging Technologies in Bioengineering Group
  Dpto. Graphic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Univ. of Seville
  Spain
  Hemodialysis quantification has been the focus of intensive research since the discovery that urea clearance is related to survival of patients with End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) submitted to hemodia...
• Comportamiento de los pacientes ancianos con Insuficiencia Renal Crónica en el programa de hemodiálisis
  MSc.Dr. Jorge López Romero; MSC.Dra. Isandra Viera Pérez; Dr C. Maximiliano Companioni Masdeu; MSC.Dr. Eduardo Fernández Ruiz; Dr. Paulino Hernández Hernández
  Hospital Universitario "Arnaldo Milián Castro"
  Villa Clara
  Cuba
  La Enfermedad Renal Crónica posee causas multifactoriales y tiene cada vez mayor incidencia en poblaciones adultas con énfasis en países del primer mundo. En Cuba es una enfermedad recurrente debi...
• Control of hepatitis C virus transmission in dialysis units; should we isolate?
  Adel Afifi, Hayam Aref and Lina Khedr
  Nephrology department
  Ain Shams University
  Cairo
  Egypt
  Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in hemodialysis (HD) patients. The reported prevalence of HCV among the HD population has varied greatly from 1.9 to...
• Denovo Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) infection in a US Mayo Clinic Hemodialysis Unit, 2000-2010: Any new lessons learnt?
  Macaulay Onuigbo MD MSc FWACP FASN FBC
  Associate Professor, College of Medicine
  Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
  Nephrologist/Transplant Physician/Hypertension Specialist, Midelfort Clinic, Mayo Health System
  Eau Claire, WI
  United States of America
  Hemodialysis (HD) exposes ESRD patients to significantly higher risk for denovo Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection. HBV infection is a serious public health illness and complications include hepatocell...
• Design and Operation of the Program Management Documentation Vascular Access
  Clemente Neves Sousa(1); João Apóstolo(2); Mª Henriqueta Jesus Silva Figueiredo(1); Mª Manuela F. P. S. Martins(1)
  (1) Escola Superior de Enfermagem do Porto
  (2) Escola Superior de Enfermagem de Coimbra
  Portugal
  Objective: To describe the design and operation of the program documentation management of vascular access, including arteriovenous fistula (AVF).Method: a descriptive exploratory study. Sample consis...
• Dialysis fluid purity in hemodialysis: standards values and undesirable substances
  Dr. Piergiorgio Bolasco
  Territorial Department of Nephrology and Dialysis
  Cagliari
  Italy
  With the progressive use of hemodialytic on-line methodologies the periodic controls of dialysis water become imperativeness very accurate and severe.The water controls regard as well the side microbi...
• Do two identical intravenous iron sucrose preparations have the same efficacy?
  Jacques ROTTEMBOURG; Ahmed KADRI; Emmanuelle LEONARD; Aurélie DANSAERT; Antoine LAFUMA
  Centre Suzanne Levy, Diaverum Group
  2Statistics, CEMKA/Eval, BOURG LA REINE
  Paris
  France
  Patients (pts) on chronic haemodialysis (HD) with anaemia are treated in current practice with erythropoiesis stimulating agents (ESA) and intravenous (IV) iron. In our unit, over the last years, the ...
• Early Start of Dialysis: A Critical Review
  Steven Rosansky*; Richard J. Glassock†; William F. Clark‡
  *Dorn Research Institute, William Jennings Bryan Dorn Veterans Hospital, University of South Carolina, Arnold School of Public Health
  †Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California
  ‡Division of Nephrology, London, Ontario, Canada
  United States of America
  In the US, patients who initiate dialysis “early” (at Modification of Diet in Renal Disease estimated GFR [eGFR]> 10 ml/min per 1.73m2) account for over 50 percent of new dialysis starts. This tre...
• Effects of lowering dialysate calcium concentration from 1.75 to1,5 mmol/L on mineral metabolism and hemodynamic Parameters in haemodialysis patients
  D.El Kabbaj*1 ; A.Alaayoud*2; A.Hamzi2; I.Akhmouch.2; Z.Oualim1
  1 Nephrology Dialysis Kidney transplantation Department, Military Hospital Mohammed V Rabat
  2 Dialysis Department, 1st Military Medical Center, Agadir
  Morocco
  Studies have suggested that a dialysate Calcium (DCa) of 1.5 mmol/l is a compromise between bone protection and cardiovascular risk. The aim of this prospective study was to investigate the effect on ...
• Effects of uremic toxins on drug elimination in CKD and on HD
  Lynda Frassetto, MD
  Division of Nephrology
  Medical Director, 12 Moffitt CTSI Clinical Research Center
  University of California San Francisco
  United States of America
  Many drugs require transporters to get into ('uptake') and out of ('efflux') cells, and become easier to eliminate from the body due to the actions of metabolizing enzymes. As renal failure pro...
• Erythropoietin and tissue protection
  Michael Brines
  Araim Pharmaceuticals
  United States of America
  Erythropoietin (EPO) is a well-known therapeutic protein employed for treatment of anemia. Over the past decade, it has become evident that EPO is also a cytoprotective molecule made locally in respon...
• Establishing Goals of Volume Management in Critically Ill Patients with Renal Failure using applied hemodynamic physiology
  McGee, William; Freda, Benjamin; Mailloux, Patrick
  (1) Tufts University
  Boston
  United States of America
  Evaluation of cardiac performance utilizing stroke volume index (SVI) and preload responsiveness with stroke volume variability (SVV) determined from the arterial waveform is increasingly being utiliz...
• Estado de hidratación de pacientes en hemodiálisis: método clínico vs. método de la vena cava inferior
  Julia Janet Rojas Estrada; Amaury Lorenzo Clemente; Guillermo Guerra Bustillo; Xiomara Castelo Villalón; Natacha Berland de León; Humberto Martínez Canalejo
  Hospital Clinicoquirúrgico "Hermanos Ameijeiras"
  La Habana
  Cuba
  Antecedentes: La sobrehidratación crónica contribuye a la mortalidad cardiovascular en hemodiálisis.Objetivo: Dilucidar el dilema método clínico vs. método de la vena cava inferior en la definic...
• Estado nutricional de pacientes en hemodiálisis
  Dra Tania Ramírez González
  Hospital Arnaldo Milian
  Cuba
  La desnutrición en la hemodiálisis es un importante factor de riesgo de morbimortalidad en estos pacientes .Las causas de desnutrición en las enfermedades renales son múltiples: las restricciones ...
• Evaluation of functional capacity in patients on hemodialysis, what is new?
  Prof.S.Ufuk YURDALAN, PT, PhD
  Head of Physiotherapy Department
  Health Sciences Faculty
  Marmara University
  Istanbul
  Turkey
  End-stage renal disease (ESRD), the deterioration of nephrons to an advanced stage resulting in the dysfunction of the kidneys for a long period, requires either dialysis treatment or transplantation ...
• Fatigue in chronic hemodialysis patients: prevalence, pathogenesis and treatment
  Maurizio Bossola
  Hemodialysis Service
  Catholic University
  Rome
  Italy
  Fatigue is common in chronic hemodialysis (HD) patients and impacts on daily living, impairs significantly the quality of life, increases the risk of cardiovascular events and negatively influences ...
• Fotoféresis extracorpórea: actualización
  Dres. Paula Enz°; Robert Knobler°°; David De Luca°; Ricardo Galimberti°
  °Sector Fotoféresis, Fototerapia y Linfomas cutáneos. Servicio de Dermatología. Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires.
  °°Sector Fotoféresis Extracorpórea, Servicio de Dermatología, Allgemeines Krankenhaus, Viena, Austria.
  Argentina
  La fotoféresis extracorpórea (FFEC), es una nueva terapia inmunomodulatoria la cual consiste en la separación de leucocitos ricos en plasma del paciente, seguidos por la administración ex – vi...
• Fracturas de cadera en Hemodiálisis: incidencia, factores de riesgo, causas y prevención
  Prof. Armando Luis Negri, MD, FACP
  Instituto de Investigaciones Metabólicas
  Cátedra de postgrado en Osteología
  Universidad del Salvador
  Buenos Aires
  Argentina
  El riesgo de fractura, especialmente de cadera, de los pacientes en hemodiálisis se encuentra en aumento. Se analizarán sus causas y se presentarán posibles estrategias de prevención....
• Free light chain removal in myeloma kidney
  Dr. Colin A Hutchison
  Consultant Nephrologist
  Renal Institute of Birmingham
  University of Birmingham and University Hospital Birmingham
  United Kingdom
  Renal recovery from myeloma kidney is directly linked to an early reduction in serum free light chains. To enable this to occur an early diagnosis and rapid initiation of disease specific treatment is...
• HCV during Renal Replacement Therapy
  Dr. Sanjay K. Agarwal
  Council Member Intern. Soc. Nephrology
  Professor and Head
  Department of Nephrology
  Commonwealth Fellow UK
  India
  Liver disease is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with chronic renal failure treated by dialysis and transplantation. Biochemical abnormalities in liver function are seen in 7...
• HemoDiaDynamics as a novel system for dialysis Efficiency Monitoring
  Ahmad Taher Azar, PhD, IEEE Member
  Editor in Chief of International Journal Of System Dynamics Applications (IJSDA), IGI Global
  Egypt
  Biofeedback systems record information about the patient’s body and feedback or display the information in a comprehensible format to allow the individual to gain insight and control of their physio...
• Hemodiafiltración veno venosa continua en pacientes con disfunción multiorgánica
  Dr. Anselmo Abdo
  Centro de Investigaciones Médico Quirúrgicas. Ciudad Habana
  Cuba
  La hemodiafiltración venovenosa continua (HDFVVC) permite depurar mediadores humorales de la respuesta inflamatoria sistémica y la sepsis. Estos efectos pudieran en teoría permitir una mejora en lo...
• Hemodialysis and Pregnancy
  Sai Subhodhini Reddy
  University of Rochester Medical Center
  New York
  United States of America
  Although uncommon, pregnancy occurs in women on chronic dialysis. In 1980, the incidence of pregnancy in women on dialysis was 0.9%. Studies from 1992-2003 indicate that pregnancy occurred in 1-7% ...
• Home hemodialysis experience as a patient in India
  Mr. Kamal D Shah
  First daily nocturnal home hemodialysis patient in India
  India
  I was diagnosed with atypical Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome in July 1997 at the age of 21. After a year and a half on dialysis, I underwent a renal transplant, my mother being the donor. HUS recu...
• How to reduce the exposure for the patient of micro embolies of air that are developed during haemodialysis
  Bernd Stegmayr MD, PhD, Professor
  Division of Nephrology
  Department of Internal Medicine
  University Hospital of northern Sweden
  Umeå
  Sweden
  During hemodialysis blood enters the dialysis device either from the AV fistula/graft or a central dialysis catheter. The connection with the tubes is made through Luer lock system. Within the tubes a...
• Immunoadsorption for treatment of antibody-mediated diseases
  Dr Augusto Vallejos
  Hospital Argerich
  Buenos Aires
  Argentina
  Although immunoadsorption (IA) has been known for more than four decades, only recently is attracting the attention of researchers because some autoimmune diseases has poor response to plasmapheresis ...
• Incremento de la eficiencia de los equipos humanos en los centros de Dialisis, incorporando competencias comunicacionales para la coordinación de acciones
  Santos Depine
  Director de la Dirección de Calidad
  Confederación de Asociaciones de Diálisis de la República Argentina
  Argentina
  Los centros de Dialisis, al igual que el resto de las organizaciones de la sociedad, aspiran a la mayor eficiencia. Para lograrla, es fundamental fortalecer y facilitar los procesos comunicacionales,...
• Inflammation, arterial stiffness and vascular events in patients on renal replacement therapy
  Vaia D.Raikou
  National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
  Greece
  Chronic inflammation and arterial stiffness contribute to enhanced cardiovascular morbitity and mortality of patients with chronic renal failure.Our aim was the consideration of the relationship betwe...
• Low-Density Lipoprotein Apheresis
  Prof Claudia Stefanutti MD PhD
  Head of Extracorporeal Therapeutic Techniques Unit
  Immunohematology and Transfusion Medicine
  Dept. of Molecular Medicine
  University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’
  ‘Umberto I’ Hospital
  Italy
  In 1967 De Gennes et al. introduced a treatment for severe hypercholesterolaemia (Homozygous Familial Hypercholesterolemia - Hoz-FH) using a cell separator with noncontinuous flow. Subsequently, durin...
• Nocturnal Hemodialysis update
  Andreas Pierratos, MD, FRCPC
  Humber River Regional Hospital
  University of Toronto
  Canada
  The failure of a higher dialysis dose to improve patient survival in the HEMO (1) and ADEMEX (2) studies, using conventional thrice weekly hemodialysis or CAPD respectively, increased the interest...
• Personal History of Vascular Access for Haemodialysis
  Stanley Shaldon MA.MD FRCP
  Professor of Medicine
  Monaco
  The dominant theme of my personal history of vascular access was to facilitate self-dialysisand patient independence. The goal that haemodialysis would become the insulin of the chronic nephritic has ...
• Placement and management of permanent tunneled hemodialysis catheters
  Mercedes Salgueira Lazo
  UGC Nefrología
  Hospital Virgen Macarena
  Sevilla
  Spain
  En pacientes en hemodiálisis, el uso de Catéteres Permanentes Tunelizados (CPT) se ha incrementado progresivamente en los últimos años. El impacto negativo de esta práctica sobre morbi-mortalida...
• Preoperative Examination Before Arteriovenous Fistula or Graft Placement
  Marko Malovrh, MD, PhD
  Professor of Medicine
  University Medical Centre Ljubljana
  Department of Nephrology
  Slovenia
  Vascular access for hemodialysis is “life line” for patients with end stage renal disease (ESRD) on chronic hemodialysis (HD). An ideal access delivers a flow rate adequate for the dialysis prescr...
• Prevention of Hemodialysis Catheter-related Bloodstream Infections with Antimicrobial Lock Solutions
  Anil K. Saxena, MD, FRCP, FASN
  Specialist Clinical Nephrologist
  Nephrology, Hypertension and Dialysis Division
  Department of Medicine
  Al-Rahba Hospital- John Hopkins Medicine International
  Health Authority Abu Dhabi (HAAD)
  United Arab Emirates
  Notwithstanding the ‘Fistula First’ initiative, expanding role of central venous catheters (CVCs) in the contemporary dialysis delivery system has placed hemodialysis (HD) patients to a greater ri...
• Renal anemia (use of IV iron) PENDING
  Dr. Pablo Amair
  Hospital Universitario de Caracas
  Venezuela
  
• Requested profiles for membranes in hemodialysis
  Prof. Dr. Joerg Vienken
  Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
  Bad Homburg
  Germany
  The patient population currently treated with haemodialysis represents a heterogeneous co­hort. It differs not only in its co-morbidities, but also in its age-distribution, race, body mass index, etc...
• Scope for interventional nephrology in developing countries
  Dr. Sampath Kumar
  Department of Nephrology, Meenakshi Mission Hospital and Research Centre, Lake Area, Madurai, Tamil Nadu
  India
  Interventional Nephrology is a sub speciality which involves activities such as insertion of tunneled central venous catheters, percutaneous placement of CAPD catheters , AV fistula creation and tr...
• Sevelamer Hydrochloride and Metabolic Acidosis in Hemodialysis Patients
  Yoshinari Oka
  Saiwaicho Memorial Hospital　
  Japan
  Sevelamer hydrochloride is a phosphate binder that contains neither aluminum nor calcium, and therefore is expected to reduce the cardiovascular mortality of dialysis patients compared with calcium-ba...
• Sleep disorders in End Stage Renal Disease
  Giorgos K. Sakkas PhD
  Centre for Research and Technology - Thessaly - CE.RE.TE.TH
  Institute of Human Performance & Rehabilitation & University of Thessaly
  Greece
  Sleep disorders are common in patients with chronic renal disease. While sleep disorders also affect the general population at a rate of 2-4% in middle aged adults, they affect almost 50% of the end s...
• Surgical revisions of native arteriovenous fistula
  GDOURA Moncef
  CHAMS Clinic SFAX
  Tunisia
  This study reports our experience with surgical revisions of native arteriovenous fistula. The diagnostic of the etiology of inadequate access flow can usually be determined by a variety of clinical a...
• The AV Fistula: A Leading Contributor to Cardiovascular Mortality in Hemodialysis Patients
  Richard Amerling, MD
  Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
  Albert Einstein College of Medicine
  Director, Outpatient Dialysis
  Director, Association of American Physicians and Surgeons
  United States of America
  The arteriovenous fistula (AVF) has been a mainstay of hemodialysis treatments and the preferred access route since its inception in the 1960s, due to its longevity and resistance to infection. Howev...
• The impact of protein-energy malnutrition in dialysis patients
  Marietjie Herselman
  Professor: Division of Human Nutrition
  Faculty of Health Sciences
  Stellenbosch University
  South Africa
  A high prevalence of protein-energy malnutrition (PEM) has been reported in patients with ESRD. The deterioration in nutritional status often starts early in renal failure and frank PEM is frequently ...
• The progression of vascular calcification predicts cardiovascular mortality in dialysis patients and worsening of kidney disease in CKD
  Biagio Raffaele Di Iorio
  Nephrology and Dialysis Unit
  “Agostino Landolfi” Hospital
  Solofra (Avellino)
  Italy
  Over the past 10 years a growing body of evidence has been built up suggesting a link between serum levels of bone minerals, vitamin D, intact parathyroid hormones (iPTH), the cardiovascular ...
• Timing of Dialysis Initiation: A time for Change and Serious Contemplation!
  Austin G. Stack M.D., M.Sc, M.R.C.P.I, F.R.C.P.I., F.A.S.N.
  Consultant Nephrologist
  Regional Kidney Centre
  Health Services Executive North West Area
  Letterkenny
  Co Donegal
  Ireland
  The appropriate timing of dialysis initiation for patients with advanced kidney remains controversial. Balancing the benefits of early dialysis initiation and expected survival and quality of li...
• Using computer modeling to explain the mysteries of dialysis
  James Tattersall
  Department of Renal Medicine
  St. James's University Hospital
  Leeds
  United Kingdom
  A modern computer is optimized for graphical presentation and rapid processing. Even the most basic PC or smart-phone is thousands of times more powerful than the best computers available in the 1990s...

PERITONEAL DIALYSIS

• A 3-purse string suture insertion technique of the Tenckhoff catheter allows immediate start of peritoneal dialysis
  Bernd Stegmayr MD, PhD, Professor
  Division of Nephrology
  Department of Internal Medicine
  University Hospital of northern Sweden
  Umeå
  Sweden
  Almost 30% of uremic patients arrive without knowledge of their kidney disease in advance. Usually they will start and stay on hemodialysis. We have developed an operation technique for insertion of ...
• Assisted PD-method of choice for elderly with ESRD
  Professor DR Nada Dimkovic
  Clinical Department for Renal Diseases
  Zvezdara University Medical Center
  Belgrade
  Serbia
  The demographic changes that are taking place the last decade, and the substantial increase in the number of people surviving into old age have led to a growing demand for health services for elderly ...
• Bioimpedance in Nephrology. What is new?
  Secundino Cigarrán
  Nephrology Section
  Hospital Da Costa
  Burela. Lugo.
  Spain
  El conocimiento de la composición corporal (CC), por su implicación biológica, es de capital importancia tanto en la salud como en los procesos crónicos. Las mediciones del peso como parámetro ev...
• Comparative in vitro study of different peritoneal dialysis solutions on cytokine production by peripheral blood mononuclear cells
  Dimitra Bacharaki, Nephrologist, MD, PhD
  Attikon University Hospital of Athens
  Greece
  Peritoneal dialysis solutions (PDS), new and conventional, do not have yet a clinical biocompatibility profile. We aimed at a comparative laboratory profile based on the effect of PDS on Peripheral Bl...
• Control del HPTS en pacientes en diálisis peritoneal
  Carmen Sánchez González MD PhD
  Departamento de Nefrología
  Hospital Universitario La Princesa
  Madrid
  Spain
  La enfermedad metabólica ósea asociada a la enfermedad renal crónica permanece como una de las principales complicaciones tanto en pacientes pre-diálisis como en aquellos que ya iniciaron terapia ...
• Cost-effective way of doing PD in India - model for developing countries
  Georgi Abraham(1,2); Yuvaram N.V. Reddy(1); Milly Mathew(1,2); Rajan Ravichandran(3); Yogesh N.V. Reddy(1)
  1) Madras Medical Mission Hospital, Chennai
  2) Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences, Pondicherry
  3) MIOT hospital, Chennai
  India
  The socioeconomic status of the emerging economies is diverse and hence the cost and utilization of Peritoneal Dialysis (PD) varies widely. State of renal replacement therapy in South Asia and the ne...
• Early Start of Dialysis: A Critical Review
  Steven Rosansky*; Richard J. Glassock†; William F. Clark‡
  *Dorn Research Institute, William Jennings Bryan Dorn Veterans Hospital, University of South Carolina, Arnold School of Public Health
  †Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California
  ‡Division of Nephrology, London, Ontario, Canada
  United States of America
  In the US, patients who initiate dialysis “early” (at Modification of Diet in Renal Disease estimated GFR [eGFR]> 10 ml/min per 1.73m2) account for over 50 percent of new dialysis starts. This tre...
• Encapsulating peritoneal sclerosis
  Gowrie Balasubramaniam
  West London Renal and Transplant Centre
  United Kingdom
  Encapsulating peritoneal sclerosis is a fatal complication of long-term renal peritoneal dialysis. Apart from dialysis vintage, there have not been any reliable predictive or prognostic factors identi...
• Erythropoietin and tissue protection
  Michael Brines
  Araim Pharmaceuticals
  United States of America
  Erythropoietin (EPO) is a well-known therapeutic protein employed for treatment of anemia. Over the past decade, it has become evident that EPO is also a cytoprotective molecule made locally in respon...
• Importance of carrier state and Staphylococcus spp. virulence factors for the occurrence of peritonitis in peritoneal dialysis patients
  Maria de Lourdes Ribeiro de Souza da Cunha; Jackson Eliezer Neves Batalha; Augusto C. Montelli; Pasqual Barretti; Jacqueline C.T. Caramori
  Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Botucatu, SP
  Brazil
  Peritonitis is one of the main infectious complications of continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD), which has an important impact on patient morbidity and mortality. There is evidence indicat...
• Infections in peritoneal dialysis: application of guidelines and clinical results
  G. Amici (MD); A. Caberlotto (MD); R. Zagatti (MD); M. Tenan (RN)
  Nephrology and Dialysis Division
  Regional Hospital S. Maria dei Battuti
  Treviso
  Italy
  Peritonitis is still an important complication in PD and it is the major cause of hospitalization and drop-out and many guidelines address this clinical problem. We reviewed all the peritonitis episod...
• Mesothelial to Mesenchymal Transition as a Disease Marker and Theraphetutic Target of Peritoneal Fibrosis
  Manuel Lopez Cabrera
  Centro Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa. CSIC-UAM. Madrid
  Spain
  Peritoneal dialysis (PD) has arisen as an alternative to hemodialysis for the treatment of end-stage renal disease. Unfortunately, long-term exposure of the peritoneal membrane to bio-incompatible dia...
• Metabolic Impact of Peritoneal Dialysis
  Thyago Proença de Moraes
  Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná/ Fundação Pró Renal
  Brazil
  Carbohydrate metabolism disturbances are known factors potentially associated with cardiovascular complications in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Disorders of lipids and glucose metabolis...
• PD program management
  Profa Dra Ana Elizabeth Figueiredo
  Faculdade de Enfermagem, Nutrição e Fisioterapia- FAENFI
  Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul- PUCRS
  Brazil
  The success of a PD program depends on a multitude of factors, each program needs to identify its special circumstances, deficiencies and strong points and then strategize accordingly. The main object...
• Peritoneal Dialysis in Acute Kidney Injury and the Critically Ill
  Chang Yin CHIONH
  Consultant in Renal Medicine, Changi General Hospital
  Singapore
  Peritoneal Dialysis (PD) remains a commonly used modality for the supportive management of Acute Kidney Injury (AKI). However, in places where cost and basic utilities such as water and power supply a...
• Peritoneal Dialysis today: speculations, misconceptions and unproven concerns about a field of continuous improvements and innovations.
  Costas Fourtounas
  Assoc. Prof. of Nephrology
  Department of Nephrology
  Patras University Hospital
  Greece
  Peritoneal Dialysis (PD) has been established as an effective renal replacement therapy complementary to hemodialysis (HD) for End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) patients. However, its prevalence has been...
• Peritoneal dialysis - penetration rate and complications
  Mai Ots-Rosenberg MD PhD
  University of Tartu
  Dept of Internal Medicine
  Estonia
  Peritoneal dialysis appears to have some excellent properties as a first line renal replacement therapy. Penetration of peritoneal dialysis varies widely across the world. It ranges from about 80% in ...
• Peritoneal water transport quantification: free water and backfiltration
  Anabela Rodrigues, MD, PhD
  Division of Nephrology
  Centro Hospitalar do Porto
  Hospital de Santo António
  Portugal
  Free water transport (FWT) evaluation and backfiltration are important aspects of peritoneal membrane physiology. The talk will briefly point to the Three pore model simplifications and causes of UF...
• Phosphate handling in PD
  Carlos Botelho
  Department of Nephrology
  Centro Hospitalar de Coimbra
  Portugal
  Dialysis adequacy has been focused on indices of small solute removal such as Kt/V urea. The definition of dialysis adequacy is a matter of controversy, while the search for a prognosis useful marker ...
• Renal anemia (use of IV iron) PENDING
  Dr. Pablo Amair
  Hospital Universitario de Caracas
  Venezuela
  
• Risk factors for peritonitis in peritoneal dialysis patients
  Pasqual Barretti
  Internal Medicine
  Botucatu School of Medicine
  UNESP Botucatu
  Brazil
  Despite improvements in technologies, peritoneal dialysis (PD) – related peritonitis contributes significantly to morbidity and modality failure in patients on PD therapy. A clustered distribution o...
• Scope for interventional nephrology in developing countries
  Dr. Sampath Kumar
  Department of Nephrology, Meenakshi Mission Hospital and Research Centre, Lake Area, Madurai, Tamil Nadu
  India
  Interventional Nephrology is a sub speciality which involves activities such as insertion of tunneled central venous catheters, percutaneous placement of CAPD catheters , AV fistula creation and tr...
• Sleep disorders in End Stage Renal Disease
  Giorgos K. Sakkas PhD
  Centre for Research and Technology - Thessaly - CE.RE.TE.TH
  Institute of Human Performance & Rehabilitation & University of Thessaly
  Greece
  Sleep disorders are common in patients with chronic renal disease. While sleep disorders also affect the general population at a rate of 2-4% in middle aged adults, they affect almost 50% of the end s...
• Survival studies in peritoneal dialysis; what do we need to know?
  Paraskevi Tseke
  Renal Unit, Alexandra Hospital
  Greece
  Peritoneal dilaysis (PD) has been introduced more than 25 years ago, as an alternative to hemodialysis (HD) for the treatment of end-stage renal disease (ESRD). However, after the peak of the number ...
• The difficulty to have a really correct measure and estimate of the actual Body Surface Area (BSA) can induce misconstructions of actual renal function and of the best dialysis prescription when indexed on BSA
  Giancarlo Ruggieri
  Former Chief of Nephrology Unit at San Giacomo Hospital
  Rome
  Italy
  The need to correctly measure and estimate Body Surface Area (BSA) is due to the wide use of this variable for indexing many organic functions, including the glomerular filtration rate (GFR) and the ...
• The impact of the peritoneal dialysis modality in the peritonitis frequency
  Dr. Roberto J. Barone
  Instituto de Investigaciones Médicas Prof. A. Lanari
  Universidad de Buenos Aires
  Argentina
  The impact of the peritoneal dialysis modality in the peritonitis frequency Peritonitis is the most important infectious complication in chronic peritoneal dialysis, but still several publications sho...
• The progression of vascular calcification predicts cardiovascular mortality in dialysis patients and worsening of kidney disease in CKD
  Biagio Raffaele Di Iorio
  Nephrology and Dialysis Unit
  “Agostino Landolfi” Hospital
  Solofra (Avellino)
  Italy
  Over the past 10 years a growing body of evidence has been built up suggesting a link between serum levels of bone minerals, vitamin D, intact parathyroid hormones (iPTH), the cardiovascular ...
• Timing of Dialysis Initiation: A time for Change and Serious Contemplation!
  Austin G. Stack M.D., M.Sc, M.R.C.P.I, F.R.C.P.I., F.A.S.N.
  Consultant Nephrologist
  Regional Kidney Centre
  Health Services Executive North West Area
  Letterkenny
  Co Donegal
  Ireland
  The appropriate timing of dialysis initiation for patients with advanced kidney remains controversial. Balancing the benefits of early dialysis initiation and expected survival and quality of li...
• Using computer modeling to explain the mysteries of dialysis
  James Tattersall
  Department of Renal Medicine
  St. James's University Hospital
  Leeds
  United Kingdom
  A modern computer is optimized for graphical presentation and rapid processing. Even the most basic PC or smart-phone is thousands of times more powerful than the best computers available in the 1990s...
• Volume management in peritoneal dialysis
  Dr. Thomas A Golper
  Vanderbilt University Medical Center
  Nashville
  United States of America
  Volume related problems cause 40% of the transfers out of PD by 6 years. Volume related problems fall into two categories, those related to volume intake and those related to volume removal. Intake is...

RENAL PHYSIOLOGY AND PATHOPHYSIOLOGY

• An Update on Hepatorenal Syndrome
  Michelle M. Estrella, MD, MHS
  Assistant Professor of Medicine
  Associate Fellowship Program Director
  Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  Division of Nephrology
  United States of America
  Hepatorenal Syndrome develops in individuals with advanced liver disease, leading to progressive renal failure and high mortality without liver transplantation. The objectives of this presentation ar...
• Antiprotenuric and renoprotective effects of combined blockade of angiotensin II – endothelin I, from experimental models to clinical practice
  Alfons Segarra
  Servicio de Nefrología Hospital Vall d'Hebrón
  Barcelona
  Spain
  Chronic proteinuric nephropathies that result in substantial damage of glomerular, structures, usually develop an inexorable progression to end-stage renal disease which is independent of the init...
• Contrast induced nephropathy
  Dr. Nilüfer Oğuzhan
  Department of Nephrology
  Erciyes University Medical School
  Kayseri
  Turkey
  There are several mechanisms proposed to explain the pathogenesis of contrast-induced nephropathy (CIN). The most pronounced mechanisms are renal medullary hypoxemia (mediated by NO, endothelin or ade...
• Cross-talk between the vitamin D-FGF23-klotho axis and the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system in CKD: target for intervention?
  Martin de Borst, MD, PhD
  University of Groningen
  Netherlands
  Pharmacological blockade of the RAAS is the cornerstone of renoprotective therapy. Despite its proven efficacy, renoprotection is usually far from complete, at least in part due to persistent RAAS act...
• Effects of strenuous exercise on glomerular filtration rate
  Marco Machado
  Laboratório de Estudos do Movimento Humano (FUNITA)
  Laboratório de Fisiologia e Biocinética (UNIG)
  Itaperuna, RJ
  Brazil
  Strenuous, overexertion exercise can result in muscle damage evidenced by delayed-onset muscle soreness, strength loss, weakness, tenderness and increased blood levels of muscle proteins such as creat...
• Estimation of Kidney Function For Drug Dosing in Obesity
  Manjunath (Amit) Pai, PharmD
  Associate Professor
  Albany College of Pharmacy
  United States of America
  The average weight for adults in the United States has increased from 69.7 kg in 1960 to 80.8 kg in 2002. Obesity defined as a body mass index (BMI) ≥ 30 kg/m2 is now prevalent in 33% of the US adu...
• Functional data from renal Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
  Isky Gordon
  Imaging and Physics unit
  UCL Institute of Child Health
  London
  United Kingdom
  Renal MRI offers the possibility of detailed anatomical images. Advances in data acquisition and processing will allow estimation of perfusion of each kidney, oxygen utilisation and behaviour of wa...
• Insulin regulation of podocyte TRPC6 and BK channels: Physiology and pathophysiology
  Stuart E. Dryer, Ph.D.
  John and Rebecca Moores Distinguished Professor
  Department of Biology and Biochemistry
  University of Houston
  United States of America
  Changes in glomerular function, including hyperfiltration and microalbuminuria, are hallmarks of the earliest stages of diabetic nephropathy. An important recent study has shown that podocyte-specifi...
• Intercellular glomerular signaling: the role of glutamate
  Maria Pia Rastaldi, MD, PhD
  Renal Research Laboratory
  Fondazione IRCCS Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico
  Fondazione D'Amico per la Ricerca sulle Malattie Renali
  
  Italy
  In the kidney, the glomerulus receives the whole blood of the organism every 5 minutes. Therefore, the glomerular filtration barrier, which is composed by a convoluted capillary externally covered by ...
• Intracellular renin angiotensin system: a potential role in the diabetic nephropathy
  Mirian Boim
  Nephrology Division
  Escola Paulista de Medicina
  Universidade Federal de São Paulo
  Brazil
  The intracellular RAS is defined by the presence of a complete, functional RAS within a cell. Intrarenal production of Ang II plays a significant role in progressive renal diseases, including th...
• Luminal alkalinization attenuates proteinuria-induced proximal tubular damage
  Tomokazu SOUMA, MD
  Division of Nephrology, Endocrinology, and Vascular Medicine
  Department of Medicine
  Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine
  Japan
  A highly acidic environment surrounds proximal tubular cells as a result of their reabsorption of HCO(3)(-) to maintain acid-base homeostasis. It is unclear whether this proximal luminal acidity affec...
• Mechanisms of aminoglycoside-induced Acute Kidney Injury
  Jose M. Lopez-Novoa; Carlos Martinez-Salgado; Ana I. Morales; Francisco Lopez-Hernandez
  Universidad de Salamanca
  Spain
  In spite of their undesirable toxic effects, the most frequent being nephrotoxicity, aminoglycosides (AGs) continues being frequently used as a first- and second choice drug in a vast variety of clin...
• Physiological role of vasopressin V1a receptor in renal tubules
  Yuichiro Izumi(1); Dr. Hiroshi Nonoguchi(2)
  1. Systems Biology Center
  National Heart Lung Blood Institute
  National Institutes of Health
  2. Division of Kidney and Dialysis
  Department of Internal Medicine
  Hyogo College of Medicine
  Hyogo
  Japan
  United States of America
  Arginine vasopressin (AVP) is important to maintain body fluid homeostasis by regulating water, urea, electrolytes reabsorption, glomerular filtration rate, and renal blood flow in the kidney. More sp...
• Pore to self destruction – from red blood cell to kidney
  Helle Annette Prætorius
  Center for Salt and Water Research
  University of Aarhus
  Denmark
  E.coli is the dominant facultative bacterium in the normal intestinal flora, but is also responsible for the majority of serious extra-intestinal infections as neonatal meningitis, peritonitis, gram-n...
• Pruebas funcionales en nefropediatria
  Dr. Víctor Manuel García Nieto
  Unidad de Nefrología Pediátrica
  Hospital Nuestra Señora de Candelaria
  Santa Cruz de Tenerife
  Spain
  Durante siglos, los médicos pudieron sospechar el estado de la función renal de sus pacientes únicamente a través del uso de los órganos de los sentidos. Así, podían suponer la presen­cia de a...
• Renal Regulation of Phosphate Metabolism by FGF23-Klotho System
  Mohammed S Razzaque, MBBS, PhD, FASN
  Department of Oral Medicine, Infection & Immunity
  Harvard School of Dental Medicine
  United States of America
  Adequate phosphorus balance is essential for maintaining basic cellular functions, ranging from energy metabolism to cell signaling. Impaired phosphorus balance can affect the functionality of almost ...
• Renin angiotensin system within the epithelial glomerular cell (podocyte)
  Eva Márquez; Marta Riera; Julio Pascual; María José Soler
  Hospital del Mar, Barcelona
  Spain
  Renin-Angiotensin System (RAS) is one of the most important pathways in the pathophysiology of several nephropathies, including the most important causes of end-stage renal disease in our environment,...
• The many molecular and clinical aspects of the distal renal tubular acidosis
  Sabrina Giglio MD*; Ivana Pela MD**
  * Medical Genetics Unit, Meyer Children’s University Hospital, Florence
  ** Paediatric Clinic Unit, Department of Sciences for Woman and Child's Health, University of Florence
  Italy
  Inherited distal renal tubular acidosis (dRTA) is a genetic condition with hypokalemia, hyperchloremic metabolic acidosis and inability to decrease urinary pH to Both autosomal dominant and recessive...
• The pattern of proteinuria following Karate (Kumite) competitions
  Suzan Sanavi (1); Reza Afshar (2); Mahnaz Ahmadzadeh (3)
  1. University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Akhavan Center
  2. Associate Professor, Shahed University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Nephrology, Mustafa Khomeini Hospital
  3. M.Sc in Sport Medicine
  Iran
  Exercise can induce a transient increase in urinary protein excretion. Post-exercise proteinuria is usually benign and reversible. To determine the presence and pattern of proteinuria following karate...

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE AND HYPERTENSION

• Actualización en Monitoreo Domiciliario de la Presión Arterial
  Gabriel Waisman; Jessica Barochiner; Lucas Aparicio; Paula Cuffaro
  Sección Hipertensión Arterial, Servicio de Clínica Médica
  Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires
  Argentina
  El diagnóstico de hipertensión arterial (HTA) debe basarse en múltiples mediciones realizadas en ocasiones separadas por un período de tiempo, en general en un mínimo de 2 mediciones enLas medici...
• Acute Kidney Injury after Cardiovascular Surgery
  Mojgan Mortazavi
  Isfahan Kidney Diseases Research Center
  Nephrology departement
  Isfahan University of medical sciences
  Iran
  AKI requiring dialytic support is seen in 1% to 5% of patients undergoing coronary bypass grafting procedures.The topics of my lecture is about:Causes of AKI after cardiac surgeryRisk factors
  Pathoph...
• Anemia and iron metabolism in chronic renal insufficiency: Are cardio/cerebro vascular events (cc-risks) avoidable?
  Hannelore Hampl; Eberhard Riedel
  1. University Berlin, Charité, Campus R.Virchow, Nephrology
  2. Free University Berlin, Department of Biochemistry.
  Germany
  Renal cardiac insufficiency is accompanied by anemia due to erythropoietin (EPO) and iron deficiency. A suffered heart needs increased energy make available only from oxygen (aerobic glycolysis) to im...
• Ankle-brachial index is associated with vascular calcifications and cardiovascular risk in dialysis patients
  Teresa Adragão
  Nephrology Department
  Santa Cruz Hospital, Carnaxide
  Portugal
  Peripheral artery disease (PAD) is highly prevalent in dialysis patients but is frequently underdiagnosed. DOPPS (Combe C et al, Am J Kidney Dis 2009) has demonstrated in a prospective observational s...
• Biomarkers in Chronic Kidney Disease: The relationship between overhydration, left-ventricular dysfunction and inflammation
  Olimpia Ortega MD
  Department of Nephrology
  Hospital Severo Ochoa
  Leganes, Madrid
  Spain
  Inflammation, expressed by high C-reactive protein (CRP) levels, is highly prevalent among patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and predicts death. The causes of inflammation in CKD p...
• Cardio Renal Syndrome
  Dr.Jagadish Jamboti
  Renal Physician, Fremantle Hospital
  Clinical Senior Lecturer in Medicine, University of Western Australia
  Perth
  Australia
  The kidneys and the heart share an intricate relation in maintaining volume homeostasis. Heart failure impacts renal function in many ways; not just by decreased renal perfusion but also due to increa...
• Cardio-renal syndrome: A new approach to an old problem
  Dr. Alberto Martinez Castelao
  Hospital Universitario Bellvitge
  Presidente de la Sociedad Española de Nefrología
  Barcelona
  Spain
  The connection between heart and kidney diseases has been under extensive study in recent years. The Cardio-Renal Syndrome (CRS) is a disorder of the heart or the kidneys, whereby acute or chronic dys...
• Cardiotoxicity and hyperphosphatemia: cause or effect? PENDING
  Dr. Juan Carlos Ayus
  Director of Clinical Research - Renal Consultants of Houston
  United States of America
  
• Characteristics of Atheromatous Renovascular Disease in Dubai: A Single- Center's Experience
  Wael Lateef Jebur; Khalid Abdulla; Sohrab Tomaraei
  NMC Specialty hospital-Dubai
  United Arab Emirates
  The aim of the study was to outline the characteristics of atherosclerotic renal artery stenosis (ARAS) in a cohort of patients who attended the Nephrology Department of NMC Specialty Hospital in Duba...
• Clinical Impact of Renal dysfunction in Heart failure
  Palazzuoli Alberto; Benincasa Susanna; Grothgar Stefanie; Di Sipio Pasquale; Paganini Giovanni; Pellegrini Marco; Nuti Ranuccio
  Dept of Internal Medicine and Metabolic Diseases, Cardiology Section
  University of Siena
  Le Scotte Hospital Viale Bracci
  Italy
  Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is associated with a significant increase of death and cardiovascular mortality. However the exact mechanism by which CKD impairs the cardiovascular outcome is not well es...
• Community Based Screening and Intervention for Chronic Kidney Disease, cardiovascular disease and their risk factors in Eastern Nepal
  Dr. Sanjib Kumar Sharma
  Dialysis Division, Department of Medicine
  BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences
  Dharan
  Nepal
  A community-based screening and intervention study in eastern Nepal was conducted with the aim to create awareness, detect and manage risk factors for chronic kidney disease, diabetes, hypertension an...
• Derived Functional Measure of Cardiovascular Status?
  Michael R. Pinsky, MD, CM, Dr hc, FCCP, FCCM
  Vice-Chair, Academic Affairs
  Professor of Critical Care Medicine, Bioengineering, Cardiovascular Disease and Anesthesiology
  University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
  United States of America
  How to identify patients who are becoming hemodynamically unstable before they progress too far?How to determine the most appropriate therapy to reverse the primary cause for impending circulatory sho...
• Diagnostic approach and treatment of pediatric hypertension
  Assist.Prof. Nataša Marčun Varda, MD, PhD
  Department of Pediatrics
  Maribor University Hospital
  Slovenia
  Hypertension in children is not a rare condition, indicating an underlying disease or representing early onset of essential hypertension. Its prevalence is increasing, mostly due to childhood obesity ...
• El receptor de Vitamina D y la pared vascular en la uremia
  Sara Panizo MSc; Eva Parisi PhD; Anna Cardus PhD; Petya Valcheva MSc; Elvira Fernandez Md, PhD; Jose M Valdivielso PhD
  Laboratorio de Nefrología Experimental
  Institut de Recerca Biomedica de Lleida
  Hospital Universitari Arnau de Vilanova
  Lleida
  Spain
  Atherosclerosis is a complex process characterized by an increase in the wall thickness and the hardening of the arteries. It affects media and intima layers of the artery and is caused by accumulatio...
• Establishing Goals of Volume Management in Critically Ill Patients with Renal Failure using applied hemodynamic physiology
  McGee, William; Freda, Benjamin; Mailloux, Patrick
  (1) Tufts University
  Boston
  United States of America
  Evaluation of cardiac performance utilizing stroke volume index (SVI) and preload responsiveness with stroke volume variability (SVV) determined from the arterial waveform is increasingly being utiliz...
• FGF-23 and cardiovascular disease in patients with chronic kidney disease
  Aikaterini Papagianni, MD
  University Department of Nephrology
  Hippokration General Hospital
  Thessaloniki
  Greece
  Fibroblast growth factor-23 (FGF-23) is a recently identified bone-derived hormone that regulates phosphate and 1,25 dihydroxy vitamin D metabolism. FGF-23 principally acts in the kidney to induce uri...
• Farmacoterapia antidiabética no insulínica en el cardiópata: perfiles de seguridad
  Enrique Fisman(1); Ricardo J. Esper(2); Alberto Toruncha(3); Alexander Tenenbaum(4)
  1 y 4. Facultad de Medicina Sackler, Universidad de Tel-Aviv
  2. Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
  3. Instituto Superior de Ciencias Médicas, Universidad de la Habana, Cuba
  Israel
  La insulinoresistencia constituye el trasfondo de una serie de factores vinculados tanto al desarrollo de la diabetes como de la enfermedad cardiovascular. Estos factores incluyen influencias genétic...
• Hypertensive target organ damage in children and adolescents
  Stella Stabouli MD, PhD
  Hippokration Hospital
  Thessaloniki
  Greece
  Target organ damage is commonly associated with hypertension in children and adolescents. Left ventricular hypertrophy is the most widely assessed target organ damage and echocardiography is recommend...
• Inflammation, arterial stiffness and vascular events in patients on renal replacement therapy
  Vaia D.Raikou
  National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
  Greece
  Chronic inflammation and arterial stiffness contribute to enhanced cardiovascular morbitity and mortality of patients with chronic renal failure.Our aim was the consideration of the relationship betwe...
• Low salt diet: how to effectively reduce the sodium intake?
  Vincenzo Bellizzi; Simona Laurino
  Division of Nephrology, Dialysis & Transplantation
  University Hospital of Salerno
  Italy
  Prevalence of hypertension is dramatically high in the general population, interesting at least 25% of the adult population and it is predicted to increase worldwide to 60% by 2025. Hypertension is th...
• Management of Ischemic Nephropathy: Current Evidence
  Maristela Böhlke
  Nephrology Department
  Catholic University of Pelotas
  Pelotas
  Brazil
  The diagnosis of ischemic nephropathy (IN) should be considered in patients that have reduced glomerular filtration rate associated with arterial occlusive disease that compromises the entire renal ma...
• Metabolic Impact of Peritoneal Dialysis
  Thyago Proença de Moraes
  Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná/ Fundação Pró Renal
  Brazil
  Carbohydrate metabolism disturbances are known factors potentially associated with cardiovascular complications in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Disorders of lipids and glucose metabolis...
• Modificaciones de creatinina plasmática, filtrado glomerular y presión arterial en niños con antecedentes de bajo peso al nacer por crecimiento intrauterino retardado
  Dra. Iecienia Espinosa Santisteban; Dra. Aydelin Peréz Ramos; Dra. C. Maria Ofelia Barber Fox; Tec. Lab. Maritza Victorio Fresneda
  Universidad de Ciencias Médicas Victoria de Girón
  Cuba
  El bajo peso resultante de un crecimiento intrauterino retardado (CIUR) puede inducir modificaciones funcionales renales que condicionen la aparición de Hipertensión. Con el objetivo de valorar la f...
• Objetivos del tratamiento antihipertensivo en la enfermedad renal
  Nicolás Roberto Robles
  Unidad de Hipertensión Arterial
  Hospital Infanta Cristina
  Badajoz
  Spain
  La publicación de los resultados del estudio ACCORD y, más específicamente referido a enfermos renales, los resultados tardíos del estudio AASK ponen en cuestión la necesidad de un estricto contr...
• Renal artery stenosis- to treat or not to treat?
  Bernd Krumme, MD
  Deutsche Klinik fur Diagnostik
  Fachbereich Nephrologie und Hypertensiologie
  Wiesbaden
  Germany
  If we approach to the topic of renal vascular disease, we have to distinguish different entities in this field. Renal artery stenosis may occur alone as isolated anatomical renal artery stenosis or in...
• Sex Differences in Control of Blood Pressure
  Jane F. Reckelhoff, Ph.D.
  Billy S. Guyton Distinguished Professor
  Director, Women's Health Research Center
  University of Mississippi Medical Center
  United States of America
  Recent studies have shown that there are significant differences between men and women and the prevalence and age at which they exhibit risk factors for developing cardiovascular disease (CVD). Men t...
• The progression of vascular calcification predicts cardiovascular mortality in dialysis patients and worsening of kidney disease in CKD
  Biagio Raffaele Di Iorio
  Nephrology and Dialysis Unit
  “Agostino Landolfi” Hospital
  Solofra (Avellino)
  Italy
  Over the past 10 years a growing body of evidence has been built up suggesting a link between serum levels of bone minerals, vitamin D, intact parathyroid hormones (iPTH), the cardiovascular ...
• Treatment of the Elderly Hypertensive
  Dr. Norman M Kaplan
  Department of Internal Medicine
  Division of Hypertension
  The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
  Dallas
  United States of America
  As the population grows older, the most frequent medical condition that clinicians will face is systolic hypertension in the elderly.This presentation will focus on mechanisms, diagnosis and treatment...
• Vitamin D and cardiovascular disease in CKD patients
  Patricia Matias
  Hemodial-Dialysis Unit
  Vila Franca de Xira
  Portugal
  Vitamin D deficiency is highly prevalent among patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Several epidemiological and clinical studies have shown that there is a strong association between low 25-hyd...

GLOMERULOPATHIES

• An update on Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis
  Therese C Jungraithmayr
  Universitäts-Kinderklinik Innsbruck
  Innsbruck
  Austria
  Steroid resistant Nephrotic Syndrome with Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) as underlying histopathologic finding is diagnosed in 10-20% of all Nephrotic syndromes with a yearly incidence of a...
• Atypical clinical manifestations of acute poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis
  Toru Watanabe, M.D., Ph.D.
  Department of Pediatrics
  Niigata City General Hospital
  Japan
  Patients with Acute poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis (APSGN) sometimes exhibit atypical or unusual clinical manifestations. Atypical manifestations of APSGN include the co-occurrence of immune-med...
• Diagnosis and treatment of ANCA associated vasculitis
  David Jayne
  Vasculitis and Lupus Clinic
  Addenbrooke's Hospital
  Cambridge
  United Kingdom
  Systemic vasculitis is a heterogeneous group of conditions characterised by inflammation of blood vessels. The introduction of glucocorticoids and cyclophosphamide as immunosuppression transformed sys...
• Diagnosis of Wegener's granulomatosis
  Miguel Rodrigues Leal
  Director Medico Nacional da Diaverum
  Portugal
  Wegener’s granulomatosis is a vasculitis syndrome, a clinicopathologic process that leads to inflamation of and damage to blood vessels, with frequent compromise of the vessel lumen and subsequent i...
• Diffuse and Focal Proliferative Lupus Nephritis Treatment Review. The Role of Mycophenolate mofetil.
  Dr. Jesús Garrido
  Unidade de Nefrologia e Diálise
  Hospital São Teotónio Viseu
  Clinical Director. Diaverum - Unidade da Régua
  Portugal
  Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a complex, multisystem autoimmune disorder. Lupus nephritis (LN) occurs in ~35% of adults with SLE and predicts poor survival. Outcomes are affected by ethnicity,...
• Evaluation of glomerular CD68+ cells is a useful tool to identify transplant glomerulitis and transplant glomerulopathy
  John C. Papadimitriou, M.D., Ph.D.; Cinthia Beskow Drachenberg, M.D.
  University of Maryland School of Medicine
  Baltimore, MD
  United States of America
  Antibody mediated allograft rejection (AMR) causes transplant failure through acute and/or chronic immunoglobulin and complement induced microvascular injury and remodeling that eventually leads to gr...
• Henoch-Schonlein purpura nephritis
  Dr. Paul Joseph T Galutira
  Section of Pediatric Nephrology
  University of Santo Tomas Hospital
  Manila
  Philippines
  Henoch-Schönlein purpura (HSP) is the most common vasculitis in childhood. It is often a self-limited condition characterized by nonthrombocytopenic purpura, bowel angina, arthritis/arthralgia, and n...
• Immunoadsorption for treatment of antibody-mediated diseases
  Dr Augusto Vallejos
  Hospital Argerich
  Buenos Aires
  Argentina
  Although immunoadsorption (IA) has been known for more than four decades, only recently is attracting the attention of researchers because some autoimmune diseases has poor response to plasmapheresis ...
• Incidencia de Glomerulopatías en el Uruguay
  Dr. Oscar Noboa
  Prof. Agregado del Centro de Nefrología Hospital de Clínicas Facultad de Medicina Universidad de la República, Montevideo
  On Behalf of the Uruguayan Program for diagnosis and prevention of glomerulopathies
  Uruguay
  The Uruguayan Registry of Glomerulopathies began its activity in 1974 and since 1985 is a national registry. The aim of this report is to analyze the incidence and the variations in frequencies of the...
• Morphologic patterns of focal and segmental glomerulosclerosis: controversial aspects and prognostic implications
  Luis F. Arias, MD, PhD
  Universidad de Antioquia
  Medellin
  Colombia
  Focal and segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) has a wide clinical and morphological spectrum, and its prognosis is variable, with patients developing end-stage renal disease and patients with complete...
• NPHS2 gene mutation results in 700 Turkish SRNS children and genotype-phenotype correlations
  Prof. Afig Berdeli
  Department of Molecular Genetics
  Ege University Faculty of Medicine
  Izmir
  Turkey
  The visceral glomerular epithelial cell, podocyte, lines the outer aspect of the glomerular basement membrane (GBM) constituting the final barrier to protein loss. All forms of nephrotic syndrome are ...
• Nefritis lúpica
  Dr Miguel A Nadal
  División Nefrología
  Hospital de Clínicas José de San Martín
  Universidad de Buenos Aires
  Argentina
  Se presenta la experiencia en biopsia renal (BR) de 236 pacientes con nefritis lúpica (NL). Las clases III y IV representan el 70% del total. Las formas clínicas renales fueron por orden de frecuenc...
• Nephrotic syndrome
  Robert P Woroniecki
  Albert Einstein College of Medicine
  Bronx, NY
  United States of America
  Nephrotic syndrome is rare but important chronic disorder in children. The response to a 4 to 6-week trial of high-dose steroid therapy is used to characterize INS as either steroid sensitive (SSNS) o...
• New trends in IgA Nephropathy
  Prof. Francesco Paolo Schena, MD, FASN
  Professor of Nephrology
  Renal, Dialysis and Transplant Unit
  Department of Emergency and Organ Transplant
  University of Bari
  Italy
  Immunoglobulin A (IgA) nephropathy is the most common form of primary glomerulonephritis worldwide. It is characterized by recurrent episodes of microscopic hematuria concomitant with upper respirator...
• Phosphate overload via type III Na-dependent Pi transporter induces overt proteinuria due to podocyte injury
  Sahoko Sekiguchi-Ueda; Atsushi Suzuki; Shogo Asano; Megumi Shibata; Eishin Yaoita; Mitsuyasu Itoh
  Fujita Health University Toyoake, Aichi
  Toyokawa City Hospital Toyokawa, Aichi
  Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata
  Japan
  Phosphate (Pi) uptake at the cellular membrane is essential to maintain the cell activity based on ATP synthesis. On the contrary, accumulating evidences suggest that Pi overload from the extracellula...
• Plasma Cell Dyscrasia; LCDD vs Immunotactoid glomerulopathy
  Wael L. Jebur; Hareth M. Saeed; Khalid Abdulla
  Nephrology Department, Al-Karamah Teaching Hospital, Baghdad
  Iraq
  Light chain deposit disease is a plasma cell disorder characterized by production of a large amount of monoclonal immunoglobulin light chain or part of it, which is usually deposited as an amorphous ...
• Prediction of functional outcome and treatments responsiveness by urinary proteins in IgA Nephropathy
  Claudio Bazzi, MD
  Fondazione D’Amico per la Ricerca sulle Malattie Renali
  Milan
  Italy
  IgA nephropathy (IgAN) is the most frequent type of glomerulonephritis (GN); it is characterized by a wide variability of clinical presentation and functional, histologic and proteinuric features; abo...
• Role of streptococcal proteins in acute poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis
  Jesús A Mosquera
  Sección de Inmunologia y Biología Celular
  Instituto de Investigaciones Clíica Dr. Américo Negrette
  Venezuela
  Circulating streptococcal antigens bind to the kidney during streptococcal infection. Cationic streptococcal erythrogenic toxin type B (ETB) and its precursor (ETBP) are largely produced by nephritoge...
• The value of repeat biopsies in lupus nephritis
  Franco Ferrario
  Director of Nephropathology Center
  San Gerardo Hospital Monza
  Milan Bicocca University
  Italy
  Repeat renal biopsy has a role in validating the 2002 revision of the classification of lupus nephritis (LN) by the International Society of Nephrology and Renal Pathology Society .. This...
• Therapy of Adult Minimal Change Disease
  Jai Radhakrishnan
  Department of Medicine
  Columbia University Medical Center
  United States of America
  Minimal change disease accounts for ~ 10% of idiopathic syndrome in adults. The response to therapy is slower with a higher rate of non responders. This session will discuss the principles of therapy...

MEDICAL IT

• HemoDiaDynamics as a novel system for dialysis Efficiency Monitoring
  Ahmad Taher Azar, PhD, IEEE Member
  Editor in Chief of International Journal Of System Dynamics Applications (IJSDA), IGI Global
  Egypt
  Biofeedback systems record information about the patient’s body and feedback or display the information in a comprehensible format to allow the individual to gain insight and control of their physio...
• Informatic Nephrology
  Carlos G. Musso, MD PhD¹; Jeronimo Aguilera, MD²; Manuel Vilas, MD¹; Daniel Luna, MD²
  Nephrology Division¹
  Medical Informatic Department²
  Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires
  Argentina
  Between the end of the last century and the beginning of the current one, it has been developing a new discipline, the Health and Biomedical Informatics (HBI), which is in charge of capturing, handlin...
• Using computer modeling to explain the mysteries of dialysis
  James Tattersall
  Department of Renal Medicine
  St. James's University Hospital
  Leeds
  United Kingdom
  A modern computer is optimized for graphical presentation and rapid processing. Even the most basic PC or smart-phone is thousands of times more powerful than the best computers available in the 1990s...

NEPHROGERIATRICS

• Aging, acute kidney injury and hemeoxygenase-1
  Jeremy Hughes
  Medical Research Council Centre for Inflammation Research
  The Queen's Medical Research Institute
  Edinburgh
  United Kingdom
  Aged individuals exhibit an increased susceptibility to acute kidney injury and a worse outcome compared to younger individuals. Hemeoxygenase-1 is a critically important anti-inflammatory enzy...
• Assisted PD-method of choice for elderly with ESRD
  Professor DR Nada Dimkovic
  Clinical Department for Renal Diseases
  Zvezdara University Medical Center
  Belgrade
  Serbia
  The demographic changes that are taking place the last decade, and the substantial increase in the number of people surviving into old age have led to a growing demand for health services for elderly ...
• Comportamiento de los pacientes ancianos con Insuficiencia Renal Crónica en el programa de hemodiálisis
  MSc.Dr. Jorge López Romero; MSC.Dra. Isandra Viera Pérez; Dr C. Maximiliano Companioni Masdeu; MSC.Dr. Eduardo Fernández Ruiz; Dr. Paulino Hernández Hernández
  Hospital Universitario "Arnaldo Milián Castro"
  Villa Clara
  Cuba
  La Enfermedad Renal Crónica posee causas multifactoriales y tiene cada vez mayor incidencia en poblaciones adultas con énfasis en países del primer mundo. En Cuba es una enfermedad recurrente debi...
• Evaluation of functional capacity in patients on hemodialysis, what is new?
  Prof.S.Ufuk YURDALAN, PT, PhD
  Head of Physiotherapy Department
  Health Sciences Faculty
  Marmara University
  Istanbul
  Turkey
  End-stage renal disease (ESRD), the deterioration of nephrons to an advanced stage resulting in the dysfunction of the kidneys for a long period, requires either dialysis treatment or transplantation ...
• Glomerulonefritis en pacientes añosos. ¿La agresividad en el tratamiento, es beneficiosa?
  Dr Eduardo Dos Ramos Farias
  Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires
  Ex presidente Sociedad Argentina de Nefrología
  Argentina
  AGRESIVO: Se aplica a la persona que realiza su trabajo con audacia y decisión Tener en cuenta, frente cada caso, TODOS los procedimientos útiles a fines diagnósticos. SIEMPRE y ajustándose ...
• Manejo de la incontinencia en pacientes geriátricos en situaciones especiales
  Dr. José R. Jauregui
  Hospital Italiano de San Justo
  Argentina
  La clasificación y el manejo de la incontinencia de orina en pacietes especiales como los que tienen demencias moderadas a avanzadas y que generalmente estan institucionalizados, difiere un poco del ...
• Renal physiology in the healthy oldest old
  Dr Carlos G. Musso; Dr Manuel Vilas
  Nephrology Division. Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires
  Argentina
  Renal physiology in the healthy very old, in comparison with the young, has the following characteristics: reduced glomerular filtration rate (around 50 ml/min/1.73 m²), preserved proximal tubule-int...
• Treatment of the Elderly Hypertensive
  Dr. Norman M Kaplan
  Department of Internal Medicine
  Division of Hypertension
  The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
  Dallas
  United States of America
  As the population grows older, the most frequent medical condition that clinicians will face is systolic hypertension in the elderly.This presentation will focus on mechanisms, diagnosis and treatment...

RENAL TRANSPLANTATION

• ABO and HLA antibody incompatible transplantation – state of the art
  Dr Robert Higgins (1); Dr Dave Lowe (2)
  1. Director, Antibody Incompatible Transplantation, University Hospital, Coventry
  2. NIHR Research Fellow, University of Warwick, UK; and Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics Laboratory, NHS Blood and Transplant, Birmingham
  United Kingdom
  The purpose of this lecture is to review what has happened in ABO and HLA antibody incompatible transplantation in the last 12 months. For more background information, see the lectures I have given at...
• Computerized quantification of renal fibrosis after kidney transplantation
  Eric Thervet MD, PhD
  Service de Néphrologie Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou
  Centre Universitaire des Saints-Pères
  Paris
  France
  Chronic allograft injury can be diagnosed early at a pre-clinical stage by its histopathological changes. Interstitial fibrosis (IF), one of its main histopathological features, is currently assessed ...
• Criterios ampliados para el transplante renal
  MSc. Milagro E Hernández Fernández
  Hospital Arnaldo Milian
  Cuba
  El mayor reto que enfrenta la nefrología actualmente es la escasez de órganos y el crecimiento continuo de las listas de espera, la edad avanzada del donante se incluye en estos criterios. Es import...
• Decision of retransplant in recurrent kidney diseases
  José Pedroso MD
  Pontifícia Universidade Catolíca do Rio Grande do Sul
  Renal transplantation program of Hospital das Clínicas de Porto Alegre
  Brazil
  As much as 75% of transplantated patients that have lost a graft ask for readmission to the waiting list. The recurrence of a glomerulonephritis in a first kidney graft is not a contraindicat...
• Donante Renal cadavérico con criterio ampliado. Presentación de un caso.
  Dr. Manuel Salvador López Cárdenas; Dr. Paulino Hernández Hernández; Dr. Israel Moreira; Dra. Oris Stephanie Pittí Mendoza
  Hospital Arnaldo Milián Castro.
  Santa Clara.
  Villa Clara.
  Cuba
  Paciente femenina, mestiza, peso 65 Kg., grupo sanguíneo O positivo, con antecedentes de hipertensión arterial crónica desde los 14 años de edad, que actualmente lleva tratamiento con nifedipina...
• Donor Risks of Living Kidney Donation
  Neil C Boudville
  School of Medicine and Pharmacology
  University of Western Australia
  Australia
  Living kidney donation (LKD) is becoming increasingly popular, and in some countries accounts for almost half of all kidney transplants performed. The short-term complications of LKD are wel...
• Early renal allograft failure secondary to extensive oxalate deposition: prevention and treatment
  Salwa Ibrahim, MD MRCP
  Professor of Medicine and Nephrology
  Cairo University
  Egypt
  Primary hyperoxaluria (PH) is a heterogenous disease with a variable age of onset and a variable progression to kidney failure. It compromise three inborn errors of metabolism with recessive autosomal...
• Evaluation of glomerular CD68+ cells is a useful tool to identify transplant glomerulitis and transplant glomerulopathy
  John C. Papadimitriou, M.D., Ph.D.; Cinthia Beskow Drachenberg, M.D.
  University of Maryland School of Medicine
  Baltimore, MD
  United States of America
  Antibody mediated allograft rejection (AMR) causes transplant failure through acute and/or chronic immunoglobulin and complement induced microvascular injury and remodeling that eventually leads to gr...
• Frequencies of CYP3A5*1/*3 variants in Moroccan population and effect on Tacrolimus daily dose requirements
  Dr Driss Elkabbaj
  Hopital Militaire d'instruction Mohammed V
  Rabat
  Morocco
  The cytochromes P450 are a suprfamily of oxydatives enzymes, which are implicated in the metabolism of a large number of endogenous substances as well as exogenous chemicals. The cytochrome P450 (CYP3...
• Great Expectation, Great Debate: Update on Immunosuppressant 2011
  Ali Olyaei, PharmD
  Division of Nephrology and Hypertension
  Oregon State University/Oregon Health & Sciences University
  United States of America
  In this lecture, mechanisms and types of rejection and the pharmacology of immunosuppressive drugs commonly used for induction or anti-rejection therapy will be discussed. The pharmacokinetic and pha...
• HCV during Renal Replacement Therapy
  Dr. Sanjay K. Agarwal
  Council Member Intern. Soc. Nephrology
  Professor and Head
  Department of Nephrology
  Commonwealth Fellow UK
  India
  Liver disease is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with chronic renal failure treated by dialysis and transplantation. Biochemical abnormalities in liver function are seen in 7...
• How Deceased Donor Transplantation is Impacting a Decline in Commercial Transplantation - The Tamil Nadu Experience
  Yuvaram N V Reddy(1), Milly Matthew(1), Saravanan S(1), Amalorpavanathan(3), Georgi Abraham(1,2), Sunil Shroff(4)
  1. Madras Medical Mission, Chennai
  2. Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences, Puducherry
  3.Madras Medical College, Chennai
  4. MOHAN Foundation, Chennai
  India
  India with a population of 1.2 billion has a renal transplantation rate of 3.25 per million population. The major cause of chronic kidney disease is hypertension and diabetes. The crude and age adjust...
• How to select a compatible donor in hyperimmunized kidney transplant candidate?
  Guadalupe Ercilla
  Servico de Inmunoligia (CDB)
  Hospital Clinic de Bacelona
  Spain
  A major challenge in most of the renal transplant centres is to find compatible donors for hyper immunised patients. It has been estimated that around a 30% of patients waiting a kidney transplant hav...
• Immune monitoring in kidney transplantation
  Paolo Cravedi
  Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research
  Bergamo
  Italy
  Management of immunosuppressive therapy in current clinical practice is based on monitoring drug levels and allograft function. Availability of assays able to directly detect patient immune reac...
• Immunisation before Renal Transplantation in Paediatrics: Current Practice in UK
  Dr Muralikrishna Bhagavatula, MRCPCH
  Paediatric Registrar
  University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff
  United Kingdom
  Solid organ transplant recipients are at higher risk of infections due to chronic underlying illness, decreased immune response to vaccination, immunosuppressant therapy post transplant and multiple c...
• Impact Of The Strict Glycemic Control In The Post-Operative Period Of Transplantation With Expanded Criteria Donor Kidneys. Preliminary Results Of A Prospective And Randomized Trial
  Luis Re; Roxana Pilotti; Jorgelina Petroni; Dafne Yagupsky; Julio Goldberg; Domingo Casadei
  Departamento de Trasplante Renal
  Instituto de Nefrología
  Argentina
  Delayed graft function (DGF) and acute rejection episodes (ARE) are events that strongly correlate with a lower graft survival rate. The presence of hyperglycemia in the post-operative period can in...
• Increased arterial stiffness in kidney transplant recipients
  Paweł Stróżecki MD
  Dept of Nephrology, Hypertension and Internal Diseases
  Nicolaus Copernicus University
  Collegium Medicum
  Bydgoszcz
  Poland
  Chronic kidney diasease (CKD) is a health problem of increasing incidence and prevalence, high cost of therapy, and poor prognosis. CKD is a state of increased risk of cardiovascular morbidity and mor...
• Kidney Injury Following hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
  Kenar D Jhaveri, MD, FASN,FACP
  Assistant Professor of Medicine
  Division of Nephrology & Hypertension
  Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine
  Great Neck, NY
  United States of America
  Kidney Disease post following hematopoietic stem cell transplantation encompasses both acute and chronic renal injuries that are commonly encountered by Nephrologists in the cancer ward. Acute insults...
• Management of the Adult Kidney Transplant Candidates on the Waiting List
  Phuong-Thu Pham; Son V Pham; Phuong-Mai Pham; Christine Lee; Jeffrey M. Miller; Phuong-Chi Pham; Phuong-Anh Pham
  Department of Medicine
  Nephrology Division Kidney Transplant Program
  David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
  United States of America
  Whereas the number of patients on the transplant waiting list has steadily increased, the number of deceased donor kidneys has remained far below the growing need, leading to longer waiting time and i...
• Personalizing the treatment of antibody-mediated rejection
  Qiquan Sun, MD, PhD
  Co-director, Organ Transplant Center
  Research Institute of Nephrology, Jinling Hospital
  Nanjing University School of Medicine
  China
  Antibody-mediated rejection (AMR) is one of the most important causes of allograft loss after renal transplantation. A lot of strategies have been developed to treat AMR, however, there is no any stra...
• Progress Report of the Banff Working Group on "The Classification of Polyomavirus Nephropathy"
  V. Nickeleit; HK Sing
  Polyomavirus Working Group
  United States of America
  Use typical signs of polyomavirus replication, i.e. virally induce epithelial cell changes (PVN specific) Use known markers of chronic renal failure, i.e. tubular atrophy and interstitial fibrosis (n...
• The Sensitized Patient: Desensitization or Donor Exchange?
  Dorry Segev, MD, PhD
  Associate Professor of Surgery and Epidemiology
  Director of Clinical Research
  Transplant Surgery
  Johns Hopkins University
  United States of America
  Burden of sensitization • The sensitized patient without a live donor • The sensitized patient with a live donor – Desensitization – Kidney paired donation – When to do which – When to do ...
• Transplantation of A2 kidneys into B and O recipients leads to reduction in waiting time: USRDS experience
  Rahul M. Jindal, MD, PhD, MBA
  Transplant Surgeon, Department of Organ transplantation
  Clinical Professor, Department of Medicine, The George Washington University
  Washington, DC
  United States of America
  INTRODUCTION: Strategy of transplanting kidneys from A2 donors into patients with blood group B and O recipients has been used to alleviate the long waiting times.MATERIALS AND METHODS: We used an inc...
• Transplante renal sob a perspectiva do doador
  Daniel Xavier Lima
  Professor Adjunto
  Faculdade de Medicina
  Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
  Brazil
  Desde o primeiro transplante renal bem-sucedido, ocorrido em 1954, inúmeros progressos têm ocorrido nessa área da Medicina, que tornaram o procedimento seguro e bem aceito pela sociedade. Entretant...
• Virological and viro-immunological monitoring of polyomavirus BK in renal transplant recipients
  Cristina Costa
  Dirigente Medico di I livello
  S.C. Virologia U.
  Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria San Giovanni Battista di Torino
  Italy
  Polyomavirus BK is a worldwide distributed virus, that is characterized by latency in different sites (the renourinary tract as the most relevant). Reactivation may occur in both immunocompetent and i...
• mTOR inhibitors after kidney transplantation in 2011
  Pr Nassim Kamar MD, PhD
  Service de Néphrologie, HTA, Dialyse, et Transplantation d'Organes
  CHU Rangueil
  Toulouse
  France
  The mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) is a highly conserved serine/threonine kinase that controls cell growth and metabolism in response to nutrients, growth factors, cellular energy, and stress, a...

CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE

• A nexus of progression of chronic kidney disease: tryptophan, profibrotic cytokines and charcoal
  Gerald Schulman, M.D., F.A.S.N.
  Professor of Medicine
  Co-Director of Clinical Trials in Nephrology
  Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
  Nashville, TN
  United States of America
  Fibrosis plays a major role in the pathogenesis of progressive chronic kidney disease (CKD). The inhibition of the renin angiotensin system, which promotes fibrosis, has become the standard of care i...
• Abordaje nutricional en la progresión de la IRC
  Lic. María Alejandra Delfante
  Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires
  Argentina
  En la Insuficiencia Renal Crónica (IRC) se distinguen distintos estadíos en los cuales progresa el daño renal hasta requerir tratamiento dialítico o transplante renal. Los objetivos del manej...
• Acidosis, citrate and progression of chronic kidney disease
  Dra. Liliana Gadola
  Profesora Agregada de Nefrología y Fisiopatología
  Hospital de Clínicas - Facultad de Medicina
  Universidad de la República
  Montevideo
  Uruguay
  The progression to end-stage renal failure is independent of the initial pathogenic mechanism (1) and common pathways lead any chronic nephropathy to glomerulosclerosis and chronic tubulointerstitial ...
• Altered calcium signaling in early stages of chronic kidney disease
  Ingrid Lajdova(1), Viera Spustova(1), Adrian Oksa(1), Zuzana Kaderjakova(2), Dusan Chorvat Jr.(3)
  1. Slovak Medical University
  2. Comenius University
  3. International Laser Centre, Bratislava
  Slovakia
  Free intracellular calcium represents a critical signaling mediator in a number of biological systems. The ability of cells to perceive and correctly respond to their environment is the basis of devel...
• Anemia and iron metabolism in chronic renal insufficiency: Are cardio/cerebro vascular events (cc-risks) avoidable?
  Hannelore Hampl; Eberhard Riedel
  1. University Berlin, Charité, Campus R.Virchow, Nephrology
  2. Free University Berlin, Department of Biochemistry.
  Germany
  Renal cardiac insufficiency is accompanied by anemia due to erythropoietin (EPO) and iron deficiency. A suffered heart needs increased energy make available only from oxygen (aerobic glycolysis) to im...
• Antiprotenuric and renoprotective effects of combined blockade of angiotensin II – endothelin I, from experimental models to clinical practice
  Alfons Segarra
  Servicio de Nefrología Hospital Vall d'Hebrón
  Barcelona
  Spain
  Chronic proteinuric nephropathies that result in substantial damage of glomerular, structures, usually develop an inexorable progression to end-stage renal disease which is independent of the init...
• Atrial fibrillation and warfarin in hemodialysis: Balancing the risk/benefit ratio
  Manish M Sood MD FRCPC
  Assistant Professor of Medicine
  University of Manitoba
  Director of Hemodialysis
  St Boniface General Hospital
  Winnipeg
  Canada
  The risk and benefits of oral anticoagulants (OAC) is well established in the general population with atrial fibrillation. In the ESRD population, the risk/benefit profile is not established due to th...
• Biomarkers in Chronic Kidney Disease: The relationship between overhydration, left-ventricular dysfunction and inflammation
  Olimpia Ortega MD
  Department of Nephrology
  Hospital Severo Ochoa
  Leganes, Madrid
  Spain
  Inflammation, expressed by high C-reactive protein (CRP) levels, is highly prevalent among patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and predicts death. The causes of inflammation in CKD p...
• Catastrophic calciphylaxis in a patient with lupus nephritis and recent onset of end-stage renal disease
  Fatma I Al Beladi
  Department of Internal Medicine
  Nephrology Division
  King Abdulaziz University Hospital
  Jeddah
  Saudi Arabia
  Painful violaceous skin lesions that progress to non-healing ulceration and gangrene characterize calciphylaxis. These lesions are associated with secondary hyperparathyroidism and generally occur in ...
• Characteristics of Atheromatous Renovascular Disease in Dubai: A Single- Center's Experience
  Wael Lateef Jebur; Khalid Abdulla; Sohrab Tomaraei
  NMC Specialty hospital-Dubai
  United Arab Emirates
  The aim of the study was to outline the characteristics of atherosclerotic renal artery stenosis (ARAS) in a cohort of patients who attended the Nephrology Department of NMC Specialty Hospital in Duba...
• Chronic Kidney Disease in Type 2 Diabetes
  Giuseppe Pugliese
  Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine
  La Sapienza University
  Rome
  Italy
  Type 2 diabetes is the main cause of end-stage renal disease worldwide. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) in type 2 diabetes is more heterogeneous than in type 1 diabetes both anatomically and clinically. ...
• Clinical Impact of Renal dysfunction in Heart failure
  Palazzuoli Alberto; Benincasa Susanna; Grothgar Stefanie; Di Sipio Pasquale; Paganini Giovanni; Pellegrini Marco; Nuti Ranuccio
  Dept of Internal Medicine and Metabolic Diseases, Cardiology Section
  University of Siena
  Le Scotte Hospital Viale Bracci
  Italy
  Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is associated with a significant increase of death and cardiovascular mortality. However the exact mechanism by which CKD impairs the cardiovascular outcome is not well es...
• Community Based Screening and Intervention for Chronic Kidney Disease, cardiovascular disease and their risk factors in Eastern Nepal
  Dr. Sanjib Kumar Sharma
  Dialysis Division, Department of Medicine
  BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences
  Dharan
  Nepal
  A community-based screening and intervention study in eastern Nepal was conducted with the aim to create awareness, detect and manage risk factors for chronic kidney disease, diabetes, hypertension an...
• Comportamiento de la enfermedad renal crónica en pacientes con afección cerebrovascular
  MSc. Dr. Jorge Lopez Romero; MSc Dr. Orlando Rodríguez Hernández; Dr. Léster Quiroz Durán; Lic. Rafael Machado Rodríguez MSc; Dra. Isandra viera Pérez. MSC; Dr. Eduardo Fernandez Ruiz
  Hospital Universitario "Arnaldo Milián Castro"
  Villa Clara
  Cuba
  Se realizó un estudio descriptivo y retrospectivo en pacientes hospitalizados por enfermedad cerebrovascular en el Hospital Universitario “Arnaldo Milián Castro”, desde enero a diciembre del 20...
• Comportamiento de los pacientes ancianos con Insuficiencia Renal Crónica en el programa de hemodiálisis
  MSc.Dr. Jorge López Romero; MSC.Dra. Isandra Viera Pérez; Dr C. Maximiliano Companioni Masdeu; MSC.Dr. Eduardo Fernández Ruiz; Dr. Paulino Hernández Hernández
  Hospital Universitario "Arnaldo Milián Castro"
  Villa Clara
  Cuba
  La Enfermedad Renal Crónica posee causas multifactoriales y tiene cada vez mayor incidencia en poblaciones adultas con énfasis en países del primer mundo. En Cuba es una enfermedad recurrente debi...
• Controversies of the different screening approaches to detect Chronic Kidney Disease. Perspectives from the National Renal Healthcare Program of Uruguay
  Dr Emma Schwedt
  Associate Prof. of Nephrology
  Honorary Committee of Renal Healthcare
  Montevideo
  Uruguay
  In theory the screening and early diagnosis allows the application of therapeutic measures that can prevent or delay the onset of the disease and may reduce morbidity and mortality, but patients (pts)...
• Cuidados paliativos en la enfermedad renal crónica
  Julen Ocharan-Corcuera
  Hospital Txagorritxu. Vitoria-Gasteiz
  Presidente de la Sociedad Española de Diálisis y Transplante
  Spain
  Los cuidados paliativos benefician a los pacientes con enfermedad renal crónica avanzada. Este aumento de la demanda de la medicina paliativa se debe a una serie de dificultades no resueltas, y sobre...
• Diagnostic approach and pathology of Fabry nephropathy
  João Paulo Ferreira da Silva Oliveira
  Centro Hospitalar de São João
  Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade do Porto
  Portugal
  Fabry disease is the lysosomal storage disorder that results from deficiency of alpha-galactosidase, an enzyme involved in the catabolic processing of globotriaosylceramide (Gb3) and related neutral g...
• Diet and Serum Phosphorus Control in CKD Patients
  Dr Jaime Uribarri
  Division of Nephrology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York
  United States of America
  Control of serum phosphorus intake, although frequently ignored by practicing nephrologists, is one of the most important issues in the clinical care of CKD patients. Two major issues prevent us from ...
• Dietary advanced glycation end products (AGEs) as causing inflammation in CKD
  Dr Jaime Uribarri
  Division of Nephrology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York
  United States of America
  We present data that demonstrates that advanced glycation end products (AGEs) of dietary origin, present in abundance in food commonly consumed in a “Western style” diet, contribute significantly ...
• Early Detection of Renal Microvascular Disease in Essential for Restoring Renal Function in Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD)
  Professor Narisa Futrakul, MD, PhD; Emeritus Professor Prasit Futrakul MD
  Faculty of Medicine
  Chulalongkorn University
  Bangkok
  Thailand
  Recognition and treatment of CKD are usually late (CKD stages 3-5) due to the inappropriate definition of CKD and insensitive diagnostic marker such as serum creatinine determination. Treat...
• Early Start of Dialysis: A Critical Review
  Steven Rosansky*; Richard J. Glassock†; William F. Clark‡
  *Dorn Research Institute, William Jennings Bryan Dorn Veterans Hospital, University of South Carolina, Arnold School of Public Health
  †Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California
  ‡Division of Nephrology, London, Ontario, Canada
  United States of America
  In the US, patients who initiate dialysis “early” (at Modification of Diet in Renal Disease estimated GFR [eGFR]> 10 ml/min per 1.73m2) account for over 50 percent of new dialysis starts. This tre...
• Effects of uremic toxins on drug elimination in CKD and on HD
  Lynda Frassetto, MD
  Division of Nephrology
  Medical Director, 12 Moffitt CTSI Clinical Research Center
  University of California San Francisco
  United States of America
  Many drugs require transporters to get into ('uptake') and out of ('efflux') cells, and become easier to eliminate from the body due to the actions of metabolizing enzymes. As renal failure pro...
• Enfermedad renal crónica en pacientes oncológicos
  MSc. Dr. Jorge López Romero; MSc. Dra. Maitee López González; MSc. Dra. Isandra Viera Pérez; Dr. Paulino Hernández Hernández. MSc; Dr. Eduardo Fernández Ruiz
  Hospital Universitario "Arnaldo Milián Castro"
  Villa Clara
  Cuba
  Se realizó un estudio descriptivo con componentes analíticos y retrospectivos, fueron incluidos en el estudio los pacientes que fallecieron con cáncer -a los que se les realizó necropsia- en los ...
• Erythropoiesis stimulating agents in CKD
  Dr Holger Schmid MD, MSc
  Medizinische Poliklinik
  Universität München
  Germany
  Incidence and prevalence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) increases worldwide and causes significant morbidity and mortality, leading to enormous financial costs. Anaemia associated with CKD enhances s...
• Erythropoietin and tissue protection
  Michael Brines
  Araim Pharmaceuticals
  United States of America
  Erythropoietin (EPO) is a well-known therapeutic protein employed for treatment of anemia. Over the past decade, it has become evident that EPO is also a cytoprotective molecule made locally in respon...
• FGF-23 and cardiovascular disease in patients with chronic kidney disease
  Aikaterini Papagianni, MD
  University Department of Nephrology
  Hippokration General Hospital
  Thessaloniki
  Greece
  Fibroblast growth factor-23 (FGF-23) is a recently identified bone-derived hormone that regulates phosphate and 1,25 dihydroxy vitamin D metabolism. FGF-23 principally acts in the kidney to induce uri...
• Further improvement in renal function following definitive treatment of urolithiasis in renal failure patient
  M Hammad Ather, MD, FCPS(urol) FEBU
  Associate Prof and Director residency
  Aga Khan University
  Karachi
  Pakistan
  The current work assessed if definitive treatment of urolithiasis following relief of obstruction in patients with renal insufficiency results in further improvement in renal function. Patients with o...
• Genomics and proteomics of uremia
  Paul A. Keown MD. DSc. MBA
  Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Director of Immunology
  Departments of Medicine; Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
  University of British Columbia
  Canada
  Chronic kidney disease is a global problem, with an estimated prevalence of more than 20% in those over 64 years of age and with health care costs approaching $2 billion per year in Canada and 7% of M...
• Growth factors and diabetic kidney
  Sharma S Prabhakar
  Department of Internal Medicine-Nephrology
  Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
  United States of America
  Nephropathy from diabetes is a major microvascular complication of both type I and type II diabetes and is currently the leading cause of end stage renal failure not only in the western hemisphere but...
• HIV-Related Renal Diseases
  Michael J. Ross, M.D.
  Associate Professor of Medicine
  Director, Nephrology Fellowship Program
  Mount Sinai School of Medicine
  United States of America
  HIV infected patients are at increased risk of acute and chronic renal injury and kidney disease is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in these patients. While the increasingly wides...
• Importance and methods for early diagnosis of chronic kidney disease: relationship between Nephrology and Primary Care
  Importancia y métodos de diagnóstico precoz de la enfermedad renal crónica: relación entre nefrología y asistencia primaria
  Importância e métodos de diagnóstico precoce da doença renal crônica: relação entre nefrologia e cuidados de atenção primária
  Da Silva I; Santiago M; Urbina P; Silva R; Furlano M; Ayasreh N; Del Pozo M; Cabrera C; Rivera L; Machado D; Díaz M; Trinidad P F; Llama P; Ballarín J; Calero F; Jordi Bover
  Fundació Puigvert, Hospital de la Santa Cruz y San Pablo. Investigaciones Biomédicas Sant Pau (IBS). Barcelona, España. REDinREN, Instituto de Investigación Carlos III.
  *Hospital Siglo XXI, México DF, México.
  Spain
  Different epidemiological studies have revealed that chronic kidney disease (CKD) is an important public health problem. Its presence has been associated with an increased r...
• Intestinal dialysis: The emerging concepts and practical applications
  Professor Aamir Jalal Al Mosawi MD, PhD.
  Advisor Doctor,Training and Development Center
  Iraqi Ministry of Health
  Head of the department of Pediatrics
  University Hospital in Al kadhimiyia
  Baghdad
  Iraq
  The prevalence and incidence of end stage renal disease (ESRD) have increased considerably in the past years. The cost of treatment of these patients is high. Limited information exists on car...
• Intracellular renin angiotensin system: a potential role in the diabetic nephropathy
  Mirian Boim
  Nephrology Division
  Escola Paulista de Medicina
  Universidade Federal de São Paulo
  Brazil
  The intracellular RAS is defined by the presence of a complete, functional RAS within a cell. Intrarenal production of Ang II plays a significant role in progressive renal diseases, including th...
• Key Points in the Care of Chronic Kidney Disease for the Primary Care Clinician
  Dr. Chester Fox
  Department of Family Medicine
  University of Buffalo
  Buffalo, New York
  United States of America
  CKD affects 26 million AmericansPrevalence is 13%It consumes 28% of the Medicare Budget This was 6.9% in 1993Costs for 2008 were $57 Billion dollars.DM+ CKD increases mortality rate 6 foldCKD disprop...
• Kidney Injury Following hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
  Kenar D Jhaveri, MD, FASN,FACP
  Assistant Professor of Medicine
  Division of Nephrology & Hypertension
  Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine
  Great Neck, NY
  United States of America
  Kidney Disease post following hematopoietic stem cell transplantation encompasses both acute and chronic renal injuries that are commonly encountered by Nephrologists in the cancer ward. Acute insults...
• Management of Ischemic Nephropathy: Current Evidence
  Maristela Böhlke
  Nephrology Department
  Catholic University of Pelotas
  Pelotas
  Brazil
  The diagnosis of ischemic nephropathy (IN) should be considered in patients that have reduced glomerular filtration rate associated with arterial occlusive disease that compromises the entire renal ma...
• Markers of podocyte injury at the initial stages of CKD
  Araujo M(1), Koles N(1), Coschigano KT(2), List EO(3), Doi SQ(1)
  (1) Uniformed Services University, Department of Medicine, Bethesda, MD
  (2) Ohio University, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Athens, OH
  (3) Edison Biotechnology Institute, Ohio University, Athens, OH
  United States of America
  Podocyte has been reported as one of the main targets of injury in the initial stages of chronic kidney disease (CKD). Studying two mouse models of CKD (the bovine growth hormone transgenic and the st...
• New insights into uric acid effects on the progression and prognosis of chronic kidney disease
  Dr Vassilis Filiopoulos; Dr Dimitrios Hadjiyannakos; Dr Dimosthenis Vlassopoulos
  Nephrology Department
  ‘Amalia Fleming’ General Hospital
  Athens
  Greece
  Hyperuricemia is particularly common in patients with arterial hypertension, metabolic syndrome or kidney disease. Its role, however, as a risk factor for both renal and cardiovascular out...
• Obesity as a risk factor of CKD
  Dr. Bassam Bernieh MD, CES, FASN
  Clinical Professor of Medicine
  Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE University
  Consultant Nephrologist
  Tawam Hospital
  Al Ain
  United Arab Emirates
  Obesity is a major public health problem whose prevalence has been rising in developing countries as well as in developed countries. Overweight and obesity are well-established risk factors for cardio...
• Phosphate overload via type III Na-dependent Pi transporter induces overt proteinuria due to podocyte injury
  Sahoko Sekiguchi-Ueda; Atsushi Suzuki; Shogo Asano; Megumi Shibata; Eishin Yaoita; Mitsuyasu Itoh
  Fujita Health University Toyoake, Aichi
  Toyokawa City Hospital Toyokawa, Aichi
  Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata
  Japan
  Phosphate (Pi) uptake at the cellular membrane is essential to maintain the cell activity based on ATP synthesis. On the contrary, accumulating evidences suggest that Pi overload from the extracellula...
• Pregnancy in Kidney disease
  Dr Ghulam H Malik,MD,DM,FACP
  Director/Senior Consultant Nephrologist
  Well care Medical Center
  Srinagar
  Kashmir
  India
  Pregnancy in Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) has to be studied from two aspects:1) The influence of pregnancy on the underlying CKD.2) CKD influencing the pregnancy outcome.Proteinuria more than 500 mg/d...
• Renal anemia (use of IV iron) PENDING
  Dr. Pablo Amair
  Hospital Universitario de Caracas
  Venezuela
  
• Renoprotective effect of RAAS blockade
  Manuel Macía Heras
  Servicio de Nefrología
  Unidad de Investigación
  Complejo Hospitalario Nuestra Señora de Candelaria
  Santa Cruz de Tenerife
  Spain
  The renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS) is a well known regulator of blood pressure (BP) and determinant of target-organ damage. It controls fluid and electrolyte balance through coordinated e...
• Renoprotective role of ultra- high doses of Angiotensin Receptor Blockers (ARBs) in proteinuric nephropathies
  Prof Pedro Aranda Lara
  Unidad de Hipertensión y Prevención de Riesgo Vascular, Servicio de Nefrología
  Hospital Regional Universitario Carlos Haya
  Málaga
  Spain
  Therapeutic objectives in patients with proteinuric nephroapthies are focused on reducing their high cardiovascular mortality risk and stoping or slow down the progression to ESRD.Plasma and tisular ...
• Strategies of the Brazilian Chronic Kidney Disease Prevention Campaign (2003–2009)
  Gianna Mastroianni-Kirsztajn; Marcus G. Bastos; Emmanuel A. Burdmann
  Brazilian Society of Nephrology
  Brazil
  In Brazil, as in the rest of the world, the prevalence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) is increasing. In order to alert the population, health professionals and authorities to this risk, in 2003, the ...
• The Reno-protective effect of Carum carvi (Black zeera) Seeds in Streptozotocin induced Diabetic Nephropathy in rodents
  Soban Sadiq
  Department of Pharmacology
  University of Health Sciences
  Khayaban-e-Jamia Punjab, Lahore
  Pakistan
  Certain medicinal plants have been reported to have their effect on various experimentally induced diseases; diabetes mellitus (DM) is one of them. DM in poorly controlled patients is associated with ...
• The current CKD staging System is not appropriate for all ages
  Salwa Ibrahim, MD MRCP
  Professor of Nephrology
  Cairo University
  Egypt
  In 2002, the National Kidney Foundation’s Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative (KDOQI) published a guideline on chronic kidney disease (CKD) covering evaluation, classification and stratificat...
• The progression of vascular calcification predicts cardiovascular mortality in dialysis patients and worsening of kidney disease in CKD
  Biagio Raffaele Di Iorio
  Nephrology and Dialysis Unit
  “Agostino Landolfi” Hospital
  Solofra (Avellino)
  Italy
  Over the past 10 years a growing body of evidence has been built up suggesting a link between serum levels of bone minerals, vitamin D, intact parathyroid hormones (iPTH), the cardiovascular ...
• Timing of Dialysis Initiation: A time for Change and Serious Contemplation!
  Austin G. Stack M.D., M.Sc, M.R.C.P.I, F.R.C.P.I., F.A.S.N.
  Consultant Nephrologist
  Regional Kidney Centre
  Health Services Executive North West Area
  Letterkenny
  Co Donegal
  Ireland
  The appropriate timing of dialysis initiation for patients with advanced kidney remains controversial. Balancing the benefits of early dialysis initiation and expected survival and quality of li...
• Vitamin D and cardiovascular disease in CKD patients
  Patricia Matias
  Hemodial-Dialysis Unit
  Vila Franca de Xira
  Portugal
  Vitamin D deficiency is highly prevalent among patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Several epidemiological and clinical studies have shown that there is a strong association between low 25-hyd...
• Vitamin D and chronic kidney disease – Therapeutic options
  Cristina Căpuşă MD, PhD
  "Dr Carol Davila" Teaching Hospital of Nephrology
  Bucharest
  Romania
  As well recognized long-time ago, chronic kidney disease (CKD) causes active vitamin D deficiency that is involved in the pathogenesis of calcium-phosphate metabolism abnormalities, secondary hyperpar...
• Vitamin D use in children with CKD
  Cheryl Sanchez, MD
  Loma Linda University Medical Center
  United States of America
  Levels of vitamin D have been shown to decline in chronic kidney disease (CKD). Supplementation with cholecalciferol or ergocalciferol (vitamin D) has improved bone mass in patients with osteoporosis....

ACUTE RENAL FAILURE

• Acute Kidney Injury after Cardiovascular Surgery
  Mojgan Mortazavi
  Isfahan Kidney Diseases Research Center
  Nephrology departement
  Isfahan University of medical sciences
  Iran
  AKI requiring dialytic support is seen in 1% to 5% of patients undergoing coronary bypass grafting procedures.The topics of my lecture is about:Causes of AKI after cardiac surgeryRisk factors
  Pathoph...
• Acute Kidney Injury in preterm infants
  Mina H H Hanna
  University of Iowa Children's Hospital
  United States of America
  Acute kidney injury (AKI) is relatively frequent clinical condition in the neonatal intensive care units and is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. In the newborn, the prognosis and r...
• Acute renal failure in the neonate
  Peter Toth-Heyn MD, PhD
  Head of the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)
  Ist Department of Pediatrics
  Semmelweis University
  Budapest
  Hungary
  The term, and particularly the preterm newborn, is born with a low glomerular filtration rate, mainly due to low systemic blood pressure and high renal vascular resistance. Acute renal failure is ther...
• Aging, acute kidney injury and hemeoxygenase-1
  Jeremy Hughes
  Medical Research Council Centre for Inflammation Research
  The Queen's Medical Research Institute
  Edinburgh
  United Kingdom
  Aged individuals exhibit an increased susceptibility to acute kidney injury and a worse outcome compared to younger individuals. Hemeoxygenase-1 is a critically important anti-inflammatory enzy...
• An Update on Hepatorenal Syndrome
  Michelle M. Estrella, MD, MHS
  Assistant Professor of Medicine
  Associate Fellowship Program Director
  Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  Division of Nephrology
  United States of America
  Hepatorenal Syndrome develops in individuals with advanced liver disease, leading to progressive renal failure and high mortality without liver transplantation. The objectives of this presentation ar...
• Cardio Renal Syndrome
  Dr.Jagadish Jamboti
  Renal Physician, Fremantle Hospital
  Clinical Senior Lecturer in Medicine, University of Western Australia
  Perth
  Australia
  The kidneys and the heart share an intricate relation in maintaining volume homeostasis. Heart failure impacts renal function in many ways; not just by decreased renal perfusion but also due to increa...
• Cardio-renal syndrome: A new approach to an old problem
  Dr. Alberto Martinez Castelao
  Hospital Universitario Bellvitge
  Presidente de la Sociedad Española de Nefrología
  Barcelona
  Spain
  The connection between heart and kidney diseases has been under extensive study in recent years. The Cardio-Renal Syndrome (CRS) is a disorder of the heart or the kidneys, whereby acute or chronic dys...
• Contrast induced nephropathy
  Dr. Nilüfer Oğuzhan
  Department of Nephrology
  Erciyes University Medical School
  Kayseri
  Turkey
  There are several mechanisms proposed to explain the pathogenesis of contrast-induced nephropathy (CIN). The most pronounced mechanisms are renal medullary hypoxemia (mediated by NO, endothelin or ade...
• Diuréticos en la insuficiencia renal
  Dr Manuel F. Vilas; Dr Carlos G Musso
  Servicio de Nefrología
  Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires
  Argentina
  Los diureticos son drogas ampliamente utilizados en la practica clinica, para aumentar la excrecion de sodio y agua,en distintas patologias. Se presenta una revision de los distintos tipos de diur...
• Dying “of” or “with” AKI: Clinical consequences of AKI
  Eric Hoste MD, PhD
  Professor in the rank of senior lecturer
  Intensive Care Unit
  Ghent University Hospital
  Belgium
  Acute kidney injury (AKI) can no longer be considered a surrogate marker for severity of illness. Recent epidemiologic data demonstrate the association of AKI and mortality. Even small decreases of ki...
• Early intervention in Acute Kidney Injury: The promise and the challengers
  Dr John W Pickering
  Senior Research Fellow
  Christchurch Kidney Research Group
  Department of Medicine
  University of Otago Christchurch
  New Zealand
  For the past decade nephrologists desire is NAKED (Novel Acute Kidney injury Early Detection). The motivation is the tremendous toll of Acute Kidney Injury (AKI), and the failure to do anything about ...
• Hantavirus Nephropathy: an underestimated but surging form of AKI in Europe.
  J. Clement; P. Maes; M. Barrios; W. Verstraeten; J-M Aerts; S. Amirpour; M Van Ranst
  University of Leuven
  Belgium
  Hantavirus are emerging rodent-borne viral pathogens causing so-called “hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome” (HFRS) in the Old World, and “hantavirus cardio-pulmonary syndrome”(HCPS) in the ...
• Is there a role for dialysis in the prevention of contrast-induced nephropathy?
  Amay Parikh
  Department of Medicine
  Columbia University Medical Center
  New York, New York
  United States of America
  A description of contrast, contrast-induced nephropathy, the mechanism of contrast removal, and the studies that answer the clinical question of the role of dialysis in preventing contrast induced nep...
• Mechanisms of aminoglycoside-induced Acute Kidney Injury
  Jose M. Lopez-Novoa; Carlos Martinez-Salgado; Ana I. Morales; Francisco Lopez-Hernandez
  Universidad de Salamanca
  Spain
  In spite of their undesirable toxic effects, the most frequent being nephrotoxicity, aminoglycosides (AGs) continues being frequently used as a first- and second choice drug in a vast variety of clin...
• Moderate Impairment in Renal Function - A Reversible Complication of Bezafibrates Treatment to Patients without Previous Kidney Disease
  Gideon Charach, MD
  Department of Medicine
  Tel Aviv-Sourasky Medical Center
  Israel
  The present study was undertaken to examine if the observations of an adverse effect of fibrates on kidney are correct and, if so, to determine the magnitude of this effect of bezafibrate on serum cre...
• New definitions of Acute Kidney Injury
  Raúl Lombardi MD
  Director
  Dept. of Critical Care Medicine
  SIM-IMPASA
  Montevideo
  Uruguay
  Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a frequent and serious clinical condition that is associated with high risk of both early and late mortality, long term hospital stay, hospital costs and end-stage renal d...
• Newer biomarkers of AKI
  Dr Sachin S. Soni
  Consultant Nephrologist and Transplant Physician
  Manik Hospital and Research Centre
  AURANGABAD
  India
  Acute kidney injury (AKI) is increasing to epidemic proportions. Currently, AKI is diagnosed based on serum creatinine and urine output. These diagnostic tools are insensitive to diagnose AKI early. ...
• Peritoneal Dialysis in Acute Kidney Injury and the Critically Ill
  Chang Yin CHIONH
  Consultant in Renal Medicine, Changi General Hospital
  Singapore
  Peritoneal Dialysis (PD) remains a commonly used modality for the supportive management of Acute Kidney Injury (AKI). However, in places where cost and basic utilities such as water and power supply a...
• The Impact of Urine Output on Acute Kidney Injury Outcomes
  Dr David Morgan; Associate Professor Kwok Ho
  Royal Perth Hospital
  Western Australia
  Australia
  With the advent of standardized definitions for acute kidney injury (RIFLE and AKIN) now internationally recognized in the literature, patients can reproducibly be classified according to the severity...
• The diagnostic challenge of acute kidney failure: a case of acute interstitial nephritis
  Nuno Rocha Pereira; Sofia Correia Pinto; Inês Fontoura; António Vieira Lopes
  Centro Hospitalar de São João
  Portugal
  Acute kidney disease has a broad spectrum of possible causes that can be divided in several categories: pre-renal disease, post-renal disease, vascular disease, glomerular disease and tubulo-interstit...
• Urinary biomarkers of acute kidney injury
  Yukio Yuzawa M.D. Ph.D.
  Professor, Division of Nephrology
  Department of Internal Medicine
  Fujita Health University School of Medicine
  Toyoake Aichi
  Japan
  I will focus on two molecules whether they are the candidates of therapeutic targets of acute kidney injury. GDNF/RET signal and midkine are induced by retinoic acid, and both of them are important ...

PEDIATRIC NEPHROLOGY

• Acute Kidney Injury in preterm infants
  Mina H H Hanna
  University of Iowa Children's Hospital
  United States of America
  Acute kidney injury (AKI) is relatively frequent clinical condition in the neonatal intensive care units and is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. In the newborn, the prognosis and r...
• Acute renal failure in the neonate
  Peter Toth-Heyn MD, PhD
  Head of the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)
  Ist Department of Pediatrics
  Semmelweis University
  Budapest
  Hungary
  The term, and particularly the preterm newborn, is born with a low glomerular filtration rate, mainly due to low systemic blood pressure and high renal vascular resistance. Acute renal failure is ther...
• Acute urinary tract infection in children: current therapy and investigations in 2011
  François Cachat
  Department of Pediatrics
  Division of Pediatric Nephrology
  University Hospital
  Lausanne
  Switzerland
  This presentation is an overview of the current epidemiology, investigations and treatment of pyelonephritis in children. It is divided in four chapters.Chapter 1 review the epidemiology of urinary tr...
• An update on Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis
  Therese C Jungraithmayr
  Universitäts-Kinderklinik Innsbruck
  Innsbruck
  Austria
  Steroid resistant Nephrotic Syndrome with Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) as underlying histopathologic finding is diagnosed in 10-20% of all Nephrotic syndromes with a yearly incidence of a...
• Aplicaciones clínicas de la albuminuria en la edad pediátrica
  Dr. Juan David González Rodríguez; Dr. José Eugenio Cabrera Sevilla
  Nefrología Pediátrica. H.G.U. Santa Lucía. Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Cartagena.
  Spain
  La albuminuria es un marcador funcional precoz de hiperfiltración glomerular potencialmente reversible, asociado a la progresión de la enfermedad renal, al síndrome metabólico y a la enfermedad ca...
• Approach to Calcium and Phosphorus disorders in children
  Amita Sharma,MD
  Clinical Director
  Pediatric Nephrology
  Massachusetts General Hospital for Children
  United States of America
  The regulation of calcium and phosphate homeostasis involves several different hormones that act on kidney, intestine and bone. Parathyroid hormone (PTH) is the primary regulator of extracellular calc...
• Bone Disease and Hypercalciuria in Children
  Maria-Goretti Moreira Guimarães Penido
  Pediatric Nephrology Unit
  University Hospital
  Federal University of Minas Gerais
  Belo Horizonte
  Brazil
  Idiopathic hypercalciuria (IH) is a metabolic alteration of high prevalence and affects all age groups without gender or race predominance. It is considered a risk factor for urolithiasis and is the m...
• Creatinaemia in extreme low birth weight infants: from biochemical quantification to clinical interpretation
  Karel Allegaert
  Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
  Department of Pediatrics
  University Hospital Gasthuisberg
  Leuven
  Belgium
  Recognition of acute renal failure (ARF) in extreme low birth weight (ELBW, i.e. < 1000 g) neonates is of relevance to adapt medical treatment and as prognostic indicator during neonatal stay. The inc...
• Diagnostic approach and treatment of pediatric hypertension
  Assist.Prof. Nataša Marčun Varda, MD, PhD
  Department of Pediatrics
  Maribor University Hospital
  Slovenia
  Hypertension in children is not a rare condition, indicating an underlying disease or representing early onset of essential hypertension. Its prevalence is increasing, mostly due to childhood obesity ...
• Efecto del crecimiento intrauterino retardado sobre variables morfométricas renales y hemodinámicas sistémicas en ratas Wistar
  Dra. Adina Pérez Mejías; Dra. Maria Ofelia Barber Fox; Dra. Lucía González; Lic. Clara Bécquer Romagoza
  Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de La Habana
  Cuba
  Se ha asociado el bajo peso al nacer por crecimiento intrauterino retardado (CIUR) con hipertensión arterial (HTA) en la edad adulta, relacionado con nefrogénesis incompleta. Con el objetivo de dete...
• Enuresis nocturna en niños: definición, epidemiología y aspectos familiares
  Dr. Luis M. Rodríguez; Dra Marta Fernández
  Unidad de Nefrología Pediátrica. Servicio de Pediatría.
  Complejo Asistencial Universitario de León (CAULE)
  Spain
  En nuestra presentación se aporta información procedente de la revisión de la literatura y de estudios y publicaciones propias y se pretende dar contestación a las siguientes preguntas cuya adecua...
• Guidelines on Antenatal Hydronephrosis
  Hiep T. Nguyen, MD
  Department of Urology
  University of California
  San Francisco
  United States of America
  The evaluation and management of fetuses/ children with antenatal hydronephrosis (ANH) poses a significant dilemma for the practitioner. Which patients require evaluation, intervention or observation?...
• Henoch-Schonlein purpura nephritis
  Dr. Paul Joseph T Galutira
  Section of Pediatric Nephrology
  University of Santo Tomas Hospital
  Manila
  Philippines
  Henoch-Schönlein purpura (HSP) is the most common vasculitis in childhood. It is often a self-limited condition characterized by nonthrombocytopenic purpura, bowel angina, arthritis/arthralgia, and n...
• Hypertensive target organ damage in children and adolescents
  Stella Stabouli MD, PhD
  Hippokration Hospital
  Thessaloniki
  Greece
  Target organ damage is commonly associated with hypertension in children and adolescents. Left ventricular hypertrophy is the most widely assessed target organ damage and echocardiography is recommend...
• Immunisation before Renal Transplantation in Paediatrics: Current Practice in UK
  Dr Muralikrishna Bhagavatula, MRCPCH
  Paediatric Registrar
  University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff
  United Kingdom
  Solid organ transplant recipients are at higher risk of infections due to chronic underlying illness, decreased immune response to vaccination, immunosuppressant therapy post transplant and multiple c...
• Modificaciones de creatinina plasmática, filtrado glomerular y presión arterial en niños con antecedentes de bajo peso al nacer por crecimiento intrauterino retardado
  Dra. Iecienia Espinosa Santisteban; Dra. Aydelin Peréz Ramos; Dra. C. Maria Ofelia Barber Fox; Tec. Lab. Maritza Victorio Fresneda
  Universidad de Ciencias Médicas Victoria de Girón
  Cuba
  El bajo peso resultante de un crecimiento intrauterino retardado (CIUR) puede inducir modificaciones funcionales renales que condicionen la aparición de Hipertensión. Con el objetivo de valorar la f...
• Monosymptomatic and non-Monosymptomatic nocturnal enuresis: A clinical review
  Mitra Naseri.MD, Mehran Hiradfar.MD
  Pediatric Nephrology Department
  Dr Sheikh Children's Hospital
  Mashhad University of Medical Sciences
  Mashhad
  Iran
  Objective: To review clinical and ultrasonography findings in different subtypes of enuresis, and compares organic and functional pathologies of lower urinary tract in children with MNE with those who...
• Nefropatía por Inmunoglobulina A en niños
  Dra. Paula Alejandra Coccia
  Servicio de Nefrología Pediátrica
  Departamento de Pediatría
  Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires
  Argentina
  La nefropatía por inmunoglobulina A (NIgA) es la enfermedad glomerular primaria más frecuente en todo el mundo. Fue originariamente descripta por Jean Berger in 1968, y se caracteriza por la presen...
• Nephrotic syndrome
  Robert P Woroniecki
  Albert Einstein College of Medicine
  Bronx, NY
  United States of America
  Nephrotic syndrome is rare but important chronic disorder in children. The response to a 4 to 6-week trial of high-dose steroid therapy is used to characterize INS as either steroid sensitive (SSNS) o...
• Nephrotoxicity of cytostatic therapy
  Dr. Bárdi Edit Ph.D
  Markusovszky Kórház, Gyermek Haemato-onkológiai Osztály
  Hungary
  During the last decades, the prognosis of childhood cancer has substantially been improved. Therefore, side-effects and attempts for their prevention gain an ever increasing importance. Here I summari...
• Pediatric Hemolytic-Uremic Syndrome
  Dr. Sidharth Kumar Sethi MBBS, MD
  Associate Consultant, Pediatric Nephrology
  Kidney and Urology Institute
  Medanta, The Medicity Hospital
  Gurgaon
  India
  Hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) is the most common cause of pediatric acute renal failure, and need for renal replacement therapy, affecting between 0.2 and 4.28 people per 100,000 worldwide. Term �...
• Postoperative fluid-electrolyte therapy in neonates: how to resolve an old conflict?
  Peter Toth-Heyn MD, PhD
  Head of the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)
  Ist Department of Pediatrics
  Semmelweis University
  Budapest
  Hungary
  Postoperative fluid-electrolyte therapy in children is based on the use of isotonic solutions in order to prevent postoperative hyponatremia. Our clinical experience shows a significantly increased ri...
• Pruebas funcionales en nefropediatria
  Dr. Víctor Manuel García Nieto
  Unidad de Nefrología Pediátrica
  Hospital Nuestra Señora de Candelaria
  Santa Cruz de Tenerife
  Spain
  Durante siglos, los médicos pudieron sospechar el estado de la función renal de sus pacientes únicamente a través del uso de los órganos de los sentidos. Así, podían suponer la presen­cia de a...
• Recent Advances in Genetic of Human > Congenital Anomalies of the Kidney and Urinary Tract
  Simone Sanna-Cherchi, MD
  Division of Nephrology
  Columbia University
  College of Physicians and Surgeons
  United States of America
  Congenital anomalies of the kidney and urinary tract (CAKUT) represent a very common birth defect in humans and are responsible for 30-40% of pediatric end-stage renal failure. Despite strong evidence...
• Renal responses to haemorrhage during post natal maturation
  Samhan, M., Qi, W., Smith, F.G.
  Department of Physiology & Pharmacology/Paediatrics
  Faculty of Medicine
  University of Calgary
  Canada
  Haemorrhage remains the primary etiological classification of hypovolemic shock in the pediatric population, and can occur before birth as well as at the time of delivery. Haemorrhage elicits numerou...
• Urinary tract infection in children
  Amar Al-Shibli, MD CESR/CCT, MRCPCH, CABP, DCH
  Deputy Director, Paediatric education
  Paediatrics Department, Tawam Hospital
  Clinical Assistant Professor, Faculty of Medicine, UAE University
  United Arab Emirates
  Urinary tract infection (UTI) in childhood is a significant and common problem encountered by primary, secondary, and tertiary healthcare professionals. The natural history of UTI has changed as a res...
• Vesico-sphincter dyssynergia
  Hiep T. Nguyen, MD
  Department of Urology
  University of California
  San Francisco
  United States of America
  In children, lower urinary tract symptoms such urinary incontinence and recurrent urinary tract infection may be caused by dyssynergy between the bladder and urinary sphincter (VSD). Left untreated, ...
• Vesicoureteral Reflux: Update/ Guidelines
  Hiep T. Nguyen, MD
  Department of Urology
  University of California
  San Francisco
  United States of America
  Vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) is one of the most common and controversial entities in pediatric urology, effecting an estimated 1-2% of children. VUR is a heterogeneous disease. While some children wit...
• Vitamin D use in children with CKD
  Cheryl Sanchez, MD
  Loma Linda University Medical Center
  United States of America
  Levels of vitamin D have been shown to decline in chronic kidney disease (CKD). Supplementation with cholecalciferol or ergocalciferol (vitamin D) has improved bone mass in patients with osteoporosis....

HISTORY OF NEPHROLOGY

• History of Urinalysis by Razi and Avecenna in Iran and their clinical judgment from UA
  Behrooz Broumand,M.D.,F.A.C.P.
  Professor of Medicine IUMS
  Permanent member Iranian Academy of Medical Sciences
  Past President Iranian Society of Nephrology
  Iran
  Urinalysis (Uroscopy) had been performed by physicians from 500 BC. Evidence of this diagnostic procedure can be found in the works of Hippocrates, Aristotle, Galen and a few others. But Liquid Gold d...

URONEPHROLOGY

• Acute urinary tract infection in children: current therapy and investigations in 2011
  François Cachat
  Department of Pediatrics
  Division of Pediatric Nephrology
  University Hospital
  Lausanne
  Switzerland
  This presentation is an overview of the current epidemiology, investigations and treatment of pyelonephritis in children. It is divided in four chapters.Chapter 1 review the epidemiology of urinary tr...
• Autologous cell implantation for treatment of vesicoureteral reflux
  Nevenka Kregar Velikonja, PhD(1), Mirjam Fröhlich, PhD(1), Andrej Coer, MD, PhD(2), Matevž Gorenšek, MD(3), Miomir Kneževič, PhD(4), Andrej Kmetec, MD, PhD(3)
  (1) Educell, Ljubljana
  (2) University of Ljubljana
  (3) University Medical Centre Ljubljana
  (4)4Blood Transfusion centre of Slovenia, Šlajmerjeva
  Slovenia
  Vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) is the retrograde passage of urine from the bladder into the ureter and kidneys during voiding. Its pathophysiology appears to be related to the valve mechanism of the uret...
• Enuresis nocturna en niños: definición, epidemiología y aspectos familiares
  Dr. Luis M. Rodríguez; Dra Marta Fernández
  Unidad de Nefrología Pediátrica. Servicio de Pediatría.
  Complejo Asistencial Universitario de León (CAULE)
  Spain
  En nuestra presentación se aporta información procedente de la revisión de la literatura y de estudios y publicaciones propias y se pretende dar contestación a las siguientes preguntas cuya adecua...
• Further improvement in renal function following definitive treatment of urolithiasis in renal failure patient
  M Hammad Ather, MD, FCPS(urol) FEBU
  Associate Prof and Director residency
  Aga Khan University
  Karachi
  Pakistan
  The current work assessed if definitive treatment of urolithiasis following relief of obstruction in patients with renal insufficiency results in further improvement in renal function. Patients with o...
• Guidelines on Antenatal Hydronephrosis
  Hiep T. Nguyen, MD
  Department of Urology
  University of California
  San Francisco
  United States of America
  The evaluation and management of fetuses/ children with antenatal hydronephrosis (ANH) poses a significant dilemma for the practitioner. Which patients require evaluation, intervention or observation?...
• Incidentaloma renal - abordagem ao quisto renal no adulto assintomático
  Maria João Balsa (1); Nuno Rocha Pereira (2); Ana Margarida Balsa (2)
  1USF Saúde em Família
  2 Hospital S. João
  Portugal
  O desenvolvimento e maior acessibilidade das técnicas imagiológicas permitiram definir uma nova entidade clínica - o incidentaloma - achado descoberto acidentalmente durante o curso de uma investig...
• Leiomioma prostático puro, presentación de un caso
  Walter Marcial Martínez Rodríguez; Olga Forteza Trujillo; Heidi de la Caridad Gil Lopez; Solángel Rúa Martínez; Ana Gloria Pérez Reyes
  Hospital Clínico Quirúrgico León Cuervo Rubio
  Pinar del Río
  Cuba
  Se presenta un nuevo caso de leiomioma de próstata puro, tumor benigno de presentación infrecuente, diagnosticado en un varón con prostatismo. Se realiza revisión de la literatura existente y se c...
• Manejo de la incontinencia en pacientes geriátricos en situaciones especiales
  Dr. José R. Jauregui
  Hospital Italiano de San Justo
  Argentina
  La clasificación y el manejo de la incontinencia de orina en pacietes especiales como los que tienen demencias moderadas a avanzadas y que generalmente estan institucionalizados, difiere un poco del ...
• Monosymptomatic and non-Monosymptomatic nocturnal enuresis: A clinical review
  Mitra Naseri.MD, Mehran Hiradfar.MD
  Pediatric Nephrology Department
  Dr Sheikh Children's Hospital
  Mashhad University of Medical Sciences
  Mashhad
  Iran
  Objective: To review clinical and ultrasonography findings in different subtypes of enuresis, and compares organic and functional pathologies of lower urinary tract in children with MNE with those who...
• Nephropathic cystinosis (treatment and long-term outcome)
  Prof. Dr. Elena Levtchenko, MD, PhD
  Pediatric Nephrologist
  University Hospital Leuven
  Belgium
  Cystinosis: an autosomal recessive disease caused by lysosomal accumulation of cystine due to defective exodus of cystine out of the lysosomes Cystinosis: “orphan disease” –incidence ~1:100,...
• Pelvic-ureteral stenosis: A case report with a clinical sign not previously described in the literature. / Estenosis Pelviureteral: Presentación de un caso con presencia de un signo clínico no descrito en la literatura
  Dr. Roberto Gabriel Albín-Cano
  Profesor de Medicina Interna
  Facultad Hospital Universitario “Calixto García”
  Departamento de Medicina Interna del Hospital Clínico-Quirúrgico Freyre de Andrade
  Cuba
  We present a patient of 34 years old, who was admitted at the Freyre de Andrade hospital in Havana by intense pain associated with visible tumor in right upper quadrant of the abdomen and tender to pa...
• Potential Pharmacologic Therapy for Cystinuria
  A. Sahota(1), M. Yang(1), S. Shikhel(1), L. Serrano(1), M.R. Lewis(2), M.D. Ward(3), J.A. Tischfield(1), D.S. Goldfarb(4)
  1) Dept Genetics, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ
  2) Imperial College, London, UK
  3) Dept Chemistry, New York University, NY, NY
  4) NYU Langone Medical Center, NY, NY
  United States of America
  Treatments for cystinuria have advanced little in the past 30 years. Atomic force microscopy has been used recently to demonstrate that effective inhibition of cystine crystal growth is accomplished a...
• Vesico-sphincter dyssynergia
  Hiep T. Nguyen, MD
  Department of Urology
  University of California
  San Francisco
  United States of America
  In children, lower urinary tract symptoms such urinary incontinence and recurrent urinary tract infection may be caused by dyssynergy between the bladder and urinary sphincter (VSD). Left untreated, ...
• Vesicoureteral Reflux: Update/ Guidelines
  Hiep T. Nguyen, MD
  Department of Urology
  University of California
  San Francisco
  United States of America
  Vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) is one of the most common and controversial entities in pediatric urology, effecting an estimated 1-2% of children. VUR is a heterogeneous disease. While some children wit...