Nephrology News Flash is the official ERA-EDTA E-Newsletter

No 189, October 2019

Be part of the SEID 2019 from your home

If you cannot make it to Vienna for the first Scientific and Educational Interaction Day, join the SEID Live Streaming on October 25 from 14.00 to 17.30 CET and October 26 from 8.30 to 15.45 CET.

Follow the Twitter coverage of the SEID 2019 through the official hashtag #SEID19

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ERA-EDTA is present at the Scientific Exposition of ASN’s Kidney Week held at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC (USA) until November 9, 2019. Do not miss the chance to meet ERA-EDTA’s staff and receive the latest information about the 57^th ERA-EDTA Congress in Milan (Italy) and all the other activities offered by the Association at booth 2619.
Furthermore, please do not miss the European Nephrology Highlights: Updates from the 2019 ERA-EDTA Congress. The ERA-EDTA speakers (Giovambattista Capasso, Ziad Massy, Peter Blankestijn and Marta Crespo) will present the highlights of the best original papers shown at the 56^th ERA-EDTA Congress which was held in Budapest last June, also highlighting the potential impact of these novel studies for advancing clinical care.

The new exciting CME organised by Diabesity will be held on November 15-16, 2019 in  Alcorcón, Madrid (Spain).

Do not miss the chance to send your scientific contribution! The new deadline for abstract submission is October 29, 2019. 

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The 2019 “Clinical Transplantation Day”, organised by DESCARTES and endorsed by ESOT and EKITA, will be organised on November 29, 2019 in Barcelona (Spain). The title of this year edition is One size does not fit all - Specific challenges posed by individual donors, recipients and transplant characteristics.

DESCARTES/EKITA ordinary members are encouraged to submit abstracts dealing with all aspects of organ transplantation at events@euromeetings.it by October 31, 2019.

Still not an ordinary member of DESCARTES? Click here to become one.

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Intranasal desmopressin reduces bleeding complications during renal biopsies and serum sodium levels in CKD patients.

In patients with renal dysfunction that do not hemodialysis, desmopressin reduces overall renal biopsy-related bleeding complications, especially minor complications such as perinephric hematomas.

Click here to read the paper.

Watch the latest author video from NDT – ‘The association of beta-blocker use with mortality in elderly patients with congestive heart failure and advanced chronic kidney disease’ by Amber Molnar.
Watch the video here and read the article here.
Click here to see all of the NDT author videos.

The Call to apply for the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) membership is open! There are 5 open positions. The call is open only to ERA-EDTA Full Members. Click here to apply. The deadline is January 15, 2020 at 2.00 pm CET

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The ERA-EDTA officially supports the open letter to the EU commission asking to revise the title for commissioner Mariya Gabriel to “Education, Research, Innovation and Youth” reflecting Europe’s dedication to all of these crucial areas. Join the initiative for a change!
The ERA-EDTA is a member of BioMed Alliance, one of the promoters of this initiative.

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The whole scientific community congratulates the 2019 Nobel Prize winner in Medicine (with W. G. Kaelin Jr & G. L. Semenza) “for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability.”

“We make knowledge. That’s what I do" are the words used by Sir Peter Ratcliffe in his interview.

Click here to listen to his interview.

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