ERA-EDTA news. The council meeting of ERA-EDTA, London, 16-18 May 1997

ERA-EDTA Immunonephrology working group.

Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation Unit, Regina Margherita Hospital, Turin, Italy, Dept of Nephrology, University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands, Nephrology, Fundacion Jimenez Diaz, Madrid, Spain, Sheffield Kidney Institute, Sheffield University, Sheffield, UK, The John Walls Renal Unit, Leicester General Hospital, Leicester, UK, Nephrology and Immunology, RWTHUniversity of Aache...

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Acute kidney injury: highlights from the ERA-EDTA Congress in London.

The ERA-EDTA 52nd Congress was held in London, 28-31 May 2015. In the scientific programme, overall, during the symposium, there were 18 lectures, 3 minilectures, 15 free communications and 135 poster presentations on acute kidney injury (AKI). Among many excellent reports and presentations, I selected three hot topics on AKI for the readership of Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation.

Disease classification: a pitfall of the ERA/EDTA registry?

nomic Toxicology (COMET): aims, activities and achievements. Pharmacogenomics 2005; 6: 691–699 18. Rossing K, Mischak H, Rossing P et al. The urinary proteome in diabetes and diabetes-associated complications: new ways to assess disease progression and evaluate therapy. Proteomics Clin Appl 2008; 2: 997–1007 19. Doucet A, Overall CM. Protease proteomics: revealing protease in vivo functions usi...

The ERA-EDTA Database on Recurrent Glomerulonephritis following renal transplantation.

Recurrence of glomerulonephritis (GN) and newly occurring GN (de novo GN) in the transplanted kidney are a frequent cause of allograft loss at 10 years [1] (Table 1). For example, studies in large US databases found a recurrence of the underlying disease in 3–8% of the patients [2, 3]. However, these retrospective analyses are biased by many confounding factors, such as the enormous disparity i...