Acute kidney injury (AKI) is the sudden onset of kidney failure or kidney damage that happens within a few hours or days.
AKI causes a build-up of waste products in the blood making it hard for the kidneys to keep the right balance of fluid in the body.
AKI can affect other organs such as the brain, heart, and lungs. Acute kidney injury is common in older patients and who are in intensive care units.
The ISN Frontiers Meeting "Infections and the Kidneys" is planned as an in-person event in New Delhi. The ISN continues to monitor the global COVID-19 situation and opportunities to follow the program online are available for those whose travel is restricted by the pandemic. Find out more here. The final format of the ISN Frontiers Meeting...
The ISN Frontiers Meeting on bi-directional relationships between infections and kidney diseases will take place in New Delhi, India, from September 22-25, 2022. Register for the meeting at the regular price until midnight CEST, August 24, here. We asked ISN Past President and Frontiers Meeting New Delhi Chair Vivekanand Jha about the event's program: Why is...
The ISN World Congress of Nephrology 2023 (WCN’23) will be held from March 30 – April 2 in Bangkok, Thailand. The ISN invites authors to submit their abstracts to WCN’23. Submit your abstract here. All accepted abstracts will be displayed as posters at the congress – one of the world's largest kidney care events – and published...
Workshop participants and course presenters at the SYL workshop at Universidad de Los Andes in Bogota, Colombia Course presenters Guillermo Hidalgo and Bill Smoyer welcomed 18 participants from Central and South America to the two-day Saving Young Lives Project (SYL) workshop held at Universidad de Los Andes in Bogota, Colombia, at the end of June....
The IACN-ISN-HKSN Scholarship supports young nephrologists to train in clinical nephrology for three months in China, including Hong Kong. The grant is a joint initiative from the International Association of Chinese Nephrologists (IACN), the ISN, and the Hong Kong Society of Nephrology (HKSN). Applications are available in Chinese. Find out more and apply here by...
ISN Fellowship grants are open to young ISN members from lower, lower-middle and upper-middle income countries. The deadline to apply is October 1, 2022 – apply here. Successful applicants receive high-quality, hands-on training for up to 12 months at a host center. Former ISN Fellow Muhammad Mohsin Riaz went on to open the first peritoneal dialysis center...
The kidney stone course is designed to assist healthcare providers to: recognize the burden of kidney stones understand the causes of kidney stone formation understand preventative treatments Access the course content here. The course comprises webinars and videos on: why kidney stones form nutrition and kidney stone disease metabolic evaluation of people with kidney diseases pharmacological treatment of metabolic abnormalities related to kidney...
WIN-India (Women in Nephrology, India) is hosting the first annual chapter of WIN ICON 2022 from August 13-14, 2022, in Hyderabad, India. The conference will be a two-day hybrid event with a scientific program of diverse topics by national and international faculty. Several ISN Regional Board and Supporting Group chairs and deputy chairs will attend...
More than 200 delegates from 51 countries joined us over the three days at the ISN Frontiers Meeting in Bergamo, Italy, at the end of June. The event had a significant online reach attaining 6.5 million impressions. A global panel of clinical and scientific experts presented three days of specialty content at the meeting on ‘Complement-related kidney...
Do you know someone who has significantly contributed to kidney care? ISN Awards are a chance to recognize their role in advancing global kidney health in line with the ISN’s mission. The deadline to submit nominations for ISN 2023 Awards is August 29, 2022. Find out more about ISN Awards here and send all nominations, supporting materials,...
Dr. Onu Ugochi Chika, from the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH) Enugu State, Nigeria, completed an ISN Fellowship training program in 2017 at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) Chandigarh, India, under the mentorship of Prof. Krishan Lal Gupta, alongside support from Prof. Ifeoma Ulasi at her home center. The training...
Last week, the 2021 impact factors (IF) were released in Clarivate’s Journal Citation Reports (JCR). KI remains the top-ranked nephrology journal publishing original research. IFs and ranks in the JCR urology & nephrology category: Kidney International’s 2021 Impact Factor is 18.998, an increase over the 2020 IF of 10.612. KI ranks 3/90 journals in the JCR Science...
Delegates at the South Africa Renal Association Congress The ISN recently supported Wesam Ismail, chair of the ISN Renal Pathology Working Group and African Regional Board Member, to present a talk on basic histology and laboratory practice at the South Africa Renal Congress 2022, Durban, South Africa. Presenting virtually, ISN Past President Vivek Jha gave the...
The Sister Centers Programs partner kidney and transplant centers in low-resource countries with established centers so they can benefit from educational support and collaborate to improve kidney care. Leaders of the ISN Sister Renal Centers Program, ISN-TTS Sister Transplant Centers Program, and the ISN Program staff will host two upcoming webinar sessions* to answer your...
The World Kidney Day (WKD) theme for 2023 is: Kidney Health for All - Preparing for the unexpected, supporting the vulnerable! The 2023 campaign launches in September. Give your feedback on the 2022 WKD campaign! Your feedback helps WKD become an even more powerful platform for raising awareness of the importance of our kidneys. The survey takes only three minutes to...
Find out more and register here. Organized in collaboration with the Indian Society of Nephrology, the webinar is the second such broadcast in the lead-up to the specialized scientific program planned for the ISN Frontiers Meeting “Infections and the Kidneys, New Delhi, September 22 to 25. Infection frequently occurs in nephrology and kidney transplant practice. New point-of-care...
Listen to the podcast here. Cochrane Kidney and Transplant are involved in evaluating the care of patients with kidney disease and with complications of diabetes and hypertension. They also assess ways of managing problems associated with interventions for kidney diseases. Find out more by tuning into the latest ISN podcast to join Roberto Pecoits-Filho and Smeeta Sinha...
Mr. Manvir Victor and other kidney transplant recipients at the summit of Mount Kinabalu in Malaysis Please join us in congratulating Mr. Manvir Victor, immediate past chair of the ISN Patient Liaison Advisory Group, who has recently succeeded in climbing Malaysia’s tallest peak to raise awareness of the importance of organ donation in the country. Mr....
75th World Health Assembly Agenda Item 14.1: Follow-up to the political declaration of the third high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases Constituency statement on the following annexes: A) Draft implementation road map 2023–2030 for the global action plan for the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases 2013–2030 Non-State Actors...
The ISN is pleased to share its report on the “Global Kidney Policy Forum 2022: Building Healthier Sustainable Communities to Safeguard Kidney Health." Access the report here. The report highlights kidney health challenges and possibilities affecting the Oceania and South-East Asia region as presented at this year's Global Kidney Policy Forum (GKPF). Hosted at WCN'22, the GKPF...
