Kidney disease means your kidneys are damaged and can’t filter blood the way they should. Those with diabetes or high blood pressure are at greater risk of developing kidney disease.
Kidney problems include acute kidney injury, chronic kidney disease, kidney cysts, kidney stones, and kidney infections.
Please join us in congratulating Ankita Patil and Jeyakumar Meyyappen for winning the ISN Frontiers-New Delhi Young Nephrologists Awards. Watch interviews with the winners here. Ankita Patil (India) presented "What is the Impact of CYP3A5 Gene Polymorphisms on Infections in Kidney Transplant Recipients?" (Click to enlarge) Jeyakumar Meyyappen (India) presented "The Adverse Effects of High Dose Corticosteroids on...
The ISN was pleased to participate in the hybrid roundtable, ‘Quality of Life in Dialysis Care,’ hosted in Madrid by our partner, the European Kidney Health Alliance (EKHA), on , 2022. The event was organized as a follow-up to the European Kidney Patients’ Federation's White Paper on Living Better with CKD (2021) to discuss and...
From left to right: Dr. Huong Thi Bich Tran, Dr. Vivek Kute, Dr. Thu Thi Ngoc Du, and Dr. Sam Minh Thai The 19th Ho Chi Minh City Urology and Nephrology Association (HUNA) and the 16th Vietnam Urology and Nephrology Association (VUNA) Congress 2022 took place in Qui Nhơn City, Bình Định, Vietnam, from 18-20...
The 63rd Annual Congress of the Italian Society of Nephrology (SIN) will take place October 5-8, 2022, in Rimini, Italy. Rosanna Coppo, chair of the ISN Western Europe Regional Board, will deliver the talk ‘Treatment of IgA nephropathy: shall we select the drug or the patient?’ from 9-10 a.m. on October 8, Central European Summer...
This survey for health professionals assesses the care of patients who travel internationally for organ donation or transplantation. Take the survey here.
The Frontiers Meeting in New Delhi focused on the bidirectional relationship between infections and kidney diseases. Infections can cause both acute kidney injury (AKI) and chronic kidney disease (CKD) through a variety of mechanisms, while patients with all kidney diseases, especially those on dialysis and kidney transplant recipients, have a greatly heightened propensity to...
From left to right: Dr. Carolina Acosta (academic director, UCA Asunción), Dr. María Magdalena Mayor (dean, Faculty of Health Sciences, UCA Asunción), Dr. Francisco Santa-Cruz (ISN Mentor and director of research at UCA Asunción) and Dr. René Scalet dos Santos Neto (ISN Mentee and Professor of medicine, Faculdades Pequeno Principe) at the Hydroelectrolytic Disorders...
Recognize and reward outstanding contributions to kidney care with an ISN Award. Find out everything you need to know about ISN Awards here. Send all nominations, supporting materials, and questions to the ISN awards coordinator by September 26, 2022.
Submit your abstract here before midnight, November 9, 2022. All accepted abstracts will be presented as posters at the congress – one of the world's largest kidney care events – and published in the WCN’23 supplement to Kidney International Reports. The WCN’22 abstract supplement was accessed over 120,000 times within the first six months of publication...
The 55th Congress of the College of Nephrologists of Mexico takes place from September 21-24, 2022, in Mexico City, Mexico. ISN President Agnes Fogo will participate in the opening ceremony on September 21 and will deliver the talk ‘Mechanisms of Progression of Chronic Kidney Disease’ during the session ‘Adult Nephrology, Glomerulopathies’ on September 23, 2022,...
ISN President Agnes Fogo will present the talk, 'Infection and Kidney Disease-the Pathologist's View' at 9:45 am (India Standard Time) on Friday, 23. Register for the ISN Frontiers Meeting on infections and kidney diseases here. The ISN Frontiers Social Media Team spoke to Agnes Fogo about her keynote speech: the unusual ways infections affect the kidneys, sophisticated...
The ISN-Swiss Society-Cameroon Society Partnership has been active since 2019. It is dedicated to advancing kidney care in Cameroon through joint initiatives. In the context of this partnership, Dr. Ngo Makang Marguerite Cecile, a nephrologist from Yaoundé General Hospital in Cameroon, undertook a six-month fellowship training in the nephrology unit at Geneva University Hospital in...
Connect with Fergus Caskey, Roberto Pecoits-Filho, Michael Walsh, Joel Topf, Manasi Bapat, and Swapnil Hiremath at the latest #NephTrials discussion on September 29, 2022, at 1 p.m. CEST. Why do we need more efficient clinical trials? What is a registry and why are registries useful? What is a registry-based randomized controlled trial, and how does...
World Kidney Day (WKD) 2023 will take place on Thursday, March 9. This year's theme is 'Kidney Health for All - Preparing for the unexpected, supporting the vulnerable!' To ensure preparedness and show support, the ISN encourages all to join in raising awareness of the impact disastrous events have on people living with kidney disease. Download and share the WKD...
A new section on the ISN Academy allows you to access content from past ISN events you may have missed. Explore the available content here. ISN members and ISN Academy subscribers can access content from the recent ISN Frontiers Meeting in Bergamo here. ISN members can access WCN'22 content here. The congress material is also available to non-ISN...
The ISN will be present at the 19th International Pediatric Nephrology Association (IPNA) congress in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, from September 7-11, 2022. Delegates can visit the ISN at our exhibition booth, or connect with us online here. ISN President Agnes Fogo will present 'Tubulo-glomerular Cross Talk' during the 'Plenary State of the Art #1 session' on...
Participants are instructed on point-of-care ultrasound at a workshop at the ISN Ambassadors training program in Egypt An ISN Educational Ambassadors (EA) training program was held at Dikirnis Central Hospital in Dakahlia, Egypt, in July. The sessions, led by ISN Educational Ambassador Prof. Ahmed Akl, and Dr. Ahmed Albeyaly, director of Dakahlia Ministry of Health, nephrology sector,...
Have your patients inspired you? Admire tireless colleagues? Tell their story! Stories of kidney health challenges and the resilience needed to face them raise awareness of the impact of poor kidney health on those living with kidney diseases. The ISN invites its members to film a short account of people living with or treating kidney diseases. You don’t have...
By Wing-Shing Fung, on behalf of the ISN Emerging Leaders Program (ELP) 2022 cohort* Climate change is the biggest health threat humanity is currently facing [1], and its impact on health is devastating. Indeed, climate change is expected to cause approximately 250,000 additional deaths per year between 2030 and 2050 [2]. The global temperature has...
Dialysis is the most prevalent form of kidney replacement therapy affecting 2-7 million people worldwide. There is a disproportionate projected growth rate in dialysis requirement mostly in Asia countries. However, dialysis remains a cost-ineffective intervention in terms of health gains per unit of expenditure. Despite that, health systems prioritized dialysis because it serves an identifiable population that would otherwise die. In low-income and lower-middle-income countries (LMICs), dialysis has grown...
