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

No 190, November 2019

ERA-EDTA Highlights at ASN's 2019 Kidney Week

Are you attending the ASN's 2019 Kidney Week ? Do not miss the European Nephrology Highlights: Updates from the 2019 ERA-EDTA Congress on November 7 at 10.30 AM. 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 ERA-EDTA Congress in Budapest last June 2019.

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The new unified exam in conjunction with the RCPUK Specialty Certificate Exam, European Specialty Exam in Nephrology (ESENeph), to be held on February 26 2020, will replace the ECN with similar curriculum, content and format.
The deadline for application is December 4, 2019.

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Do not miss this important educational session!

Join the European Renal Osteodystrophy (EUROD) Winter meeting 2020 an educational event organised by EUROD, a CKD-MBD Working Group initiative to be held on January 16-18, 2020 in Leuven (Belgium). The meeting boasts the organisation of an EUROD research forum (January 16), especially designed for basic and clinical researchers in CKD-MBD with a focus on the scientific progress in renal bone disease, two CMEs, one on ‘Vitamins and oxidative stress on the cross-roads of bone and vessels’ (January 17) and one entitled ‘The challenge of osteoporosis in CKD’ which also includes case studies.

Click here to download the full programme and to learn more about registration, abstracts and travel grants.

The ERA-EDTA Working Group on Inherited Kidney Diseases (WGIKD) and ERKNet, the European Reference Network for Rare Kidney Diseases, are pleased to present Rare Kidney Disease Webinars, an educational initiative that is freely accessible to all users.
A new Webinar will be held on Tuesday November 12, 2019 from 4:00 to 5:00 pm CET (3:00 pm UK time, 5:00 pm Eastern European time).

Olivia Boyer (Paris, France) will give a presentation on ‘Clinical Implications of Genetics in Nephrotic Syndrome in Children’.

Register here to receive the access link to the Webinar.

If you would like to be notified automatically about future Rare Kidney Disease Webinars, please sign up here for the ERKNet Newsletter.

Estimating glomerular filtration rate in patients with acute kidney injury: a prospective multicenter study of diagnostic accuracy

Estimating glomerular filtration rate (GFR) in acute kidney injury (AKI) is challenging, with limited data comparing estimated and gold standard methods to assess GFR. The objective of this study was to assess the performance of the kinetic estimated GFR (KeGFR) and Jelliffe equations to estimate GFR in AKI, using a radioisotopic method (technetium-diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid) as a reference measure.

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guidelines@era-edta.orgERBP is delighted to launch its very first open call to send ERBP supported speakers to annual meetings of national societies. If you believe your national society could benefit from a close collaboration with ERBP by having a speaker at its national meeting to disseminate knowledge on ERBP, on topics handled by ERBP guidelines and on evidence-based medicine, then have a representative from your national society fill in the application form. For more information on ERBP visit our website or contact us at guidelines@era-edta.org.

The 2019 ERA-EDTA Circular Letter has been sent by email to all ERA-EDTA members (cat. A/B)

Don’t miss important information on Council vacancies, next congresses, important deadlines of the 57^th Congress in Milan and more!

If you didn’t receive it, click here.

Why don’t you send your candidacy for the next ERA-EDTA Elections?
All Full active members, in particular women, young members and Full members from countries that are not represented in any of the current Council, Working Groups and Committees, are encouraged to participate actively in the elections, both by submitting their candidatures and/or voting for the election of the new members.

Click here for more information on how to submit your candidacy.

EKHA Chairman Raymond Vanholder presented the Joint Statement of the Thematic Network on Improving Organ Donation and Transplantation on October 17, 2019 at the EU Health Policy Platform Annual Meeting in Brussels.

The Joint Statement entitled A Shared Vision for Improving Organ Donation and Transplantation in the EU is the main output of the EKHA-led 2019 Thematic Network, developed in conjunction with National Competent Authorities, transplant organisations, medical professionals and patient associations, and endorsed by co-signing organisations and Members of the European Parliament (MEPs).

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