OBJECTIVES To evaluate the response to induction therapy with intravenous (i.v.) cyclophosphamide (CYC) in Korean patients with class IV-G (diffuse global proliferative glomerulonephritis) and class IV-S (diffuse segmental proliferative glomerulonephritis) lupus nephritis (LN) according to the classification system of the International Society of Nephrology/Renal Pathology Society (ISN/RPS). ...

Society of Nephrology (ISN), by Jean Hamburger in Paris. The new society decided to create an international journal of nephrology to be called Nephrologia . The publisher was to be Karger Editions of Basel, the current publisher of Nephron journals. After a few years of haggling, a name change to Nephron was agreed, and Gabriel Richet of Paris and George Schreiner in Washington, D.C., were to b...

INTRODUCTION In Peru there are different hospitals and university programs for training of specialists in nephrology. OBJECTIVE To assess the perception of physicians who attend such programs. METHODS We carried out a descriptive cross-sectional national-level study in physicians who were in the last two years of nephrology training during February 2012 and who had graduated from it in 2010...

INTRODUCTION Worldwide, around 10% of 6–7-yearolds suffer from enuresis. Enuresis is therefore highly prevalent, but its impact is often underestimated. Training for family doctors rarely includes specific guidance on enuresis, and the default approach is often to wait for spontaneous resolution. Despite comprehensive enuresis guidelines in specialist journals for secondary and tertiary care, v...

Connie L. Davis,* William E. Harmon, Jonathan Himmelfarb, Thomas Hostetter, Neil Powe, Paul Smedberg, Lynda A. Szczech, and Peter S. Aronson for the American Society of Nephrology Public Policy Board *Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington; Department of Pediatric Nephrology, Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA; Division of Nephrology, Maine Medical Center, Portland, ...