Correspondência para: Guillermo Garcia-Garcia. World Kidney Day, International Society of Nephrology. Rues de Fabriques 1B, 1000, Brussels, Belgium. E-mail: info@worldkidneyday. org *Members of the World Kidney Day Steering Committee are: Philip Kam Tao Li, Guillermo Garcia-Garcia, William G. Couser, Timur Erk, Elena Zakharova, Luca Segantini, Paul Shay, Miguel C. Riella, Charlotte Osafo, Sophi...

Podocytopathy in systemic lupus erythematosus is characterised by diffuse foot process effacement without significant peripheral capillary wall immune deposits as seen on electron microscopy. Lupus podocytopathy falls outside the scope of the current International Society of Nephrology and the Renal Pathology Society classification of lupus nephritis. We present a case of relapsing podocytopath...

In lupus erythematosus, elevated serum creatinine levels and urinary abnormalities implicate a kidney disorder, which may not always be lupus nephritis as defined by the current classification of the International Society of Nephrology/Renal Pathology Society. The signs of renal dysfunction may be caused by lupusunrelated renal injury such as drug toxicity or infection or by lupus-associated me...

Methods Analytic descriptive study. 89 patients with diagnosis of SLE (1997 ACR revised criteria) from a rheumatology center at a pediatric hospital were evaluated at the time of diagnosis and twelve months after. Medical records were reviewed registering the following variables: Sex, age, renal involvement (Yes/No), hypertension (Yes/ No), nephrotic range proteinuria (Yes/No), renal biopsy (Ye...

Dr. Wu’s research interest mainly focuses on Renal Cellular Physiology and Biology, Fluid and Electrolytes disorders, Clinical Nephrology and Renal Replacement Therapy. He has been quite enthusiastic in academic pursuit and published more than 100 articles in various Journals and read more than 50 abstract in various conferences. As the result of his outstanding performance, he has been awarded...

In September 2019, a two-day workshop ahead of the Southern African Transplantation Society congress brought together South champions for organ donation and leaders from International Organ Donation Procurement (ISODP) at high-level focused on creating national strategy roadmap to improve in Africa. The full report is available via supplementary materials Journal Nephrology website.

Dr.William (Bill) Bennett was the founding Editor-inChief of the Clinical Journal of American Society of Nephrology (CJASN), a Past President of the American Society of Nephrology (ASN), and the generous donor establishing the William and Sandra Bennett Clinical Scholars Program. His passion for nephrology, patient care, training, and education is widely known by patients and colleagues. In rec...

Edited by Edited by Ellis D. Avner, Former President, American Society of Pediatric Nephrology, William E. Harmon from Harvard University, and Patrick Niaudet, Former President of the European Society of Pediatric Nephrology, Pediatric Nephrology (5th edition, LWW, 2004), this internationally focused book offers an overview of the anatomy, physiology, and biology of the pediatric kidney and foc...

The International Society for Vascular Health (ISVH) was established in June 2005 as a non-profit making society under French Law (1901). Publication of ISVH bylaws and establishment of the Executive Committee were achieved in August 2005. The first question posed by the Board was: “Why yet another International Society?” The unanimous conclusion of the ISVH Board was that there exists an urgen...