The Message for World Kidney Day 2009

The nexus of acute kidney injury, chronic kidney disease, and World Kidney Day 2009.

Mark D. Okusa,* Glenn M. Chertow, and Didier Portilla, for the Acute Kidney Injury Advisory Group of the American Society of Nephrology *Departments of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia; University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System, Little Rock, AR; Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California Clin J Am So...

World Kidney Day 2008: a message to the kidney community of Iran.

World Kidney Day 2009: problems and challenges in the emerging epidemic of kidney disease.

Lynda A. Szczech,* William Harmon, Thomas H. Hostetter, Paul E. Klotman, Neil R. Powe, John R. Sedor, Paul Smedberg,** and Jonathan Himmelfarb *Department of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; Department of Pediatrics, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of M...

World Kidney Day 2011.

Thomas H. Hostetter,* Daniel J. Kochis, Rachel N. Shaffer, Glenn Chertow, William E. Harmon, Paul E. Klotman, Neil R. Powe,** John R. Sedor, Paul C. Smedberg, Suzanne Watnick, and Wolfgang C. Winkelmayer*** for the ASN Public Policy Board *Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York; American Society of Nephrology, Washington, District of Columbia; Division of Nephrology, Department...

World Kidney Day 2012: the global role of kidney transplantation.

There remain major challenges to providing optimal treatment for ESRD worldwide and a need, particularly in low-income economies, to mandate more focus on community screening and implementation of simple measures to minimize progression of chronic kidney disease. The recent designation of renal disease as an important noncommunicable disease at the United Nations High Level Meeting on Noncommun...