International Congress Of Nephrology Research Articles

Fate of Abstracts Presented at the First International Congress of Nephrology and Urology, Tehran, Iran, 2015

Objectives: The publication rate of abstracts presented at a scientific congress is considered as an indicator of congress’s scientific quality. This rate is in range of 11% to 78% with an average of 45% in international medical congresses. The current survey aimed to determine the publication rate of the presented abstracts at the first international congress of nephrology and urology (ICNU) in 2015. Methods: Data of oral and poster presentations including abstracts’ titles and authors were gathered from the proceeding of the first ICNU, Tehran, Iran, 2015. The presented abstracts were searched in Scopus, PubMed, and ISC (for Persian language published papers). All the abstracts were categorized based on presentation type (oral or poster presentation), topic, study type and design, publication status, time interval between the presentation and the publication date, and the journal publishing the full text of the abstracts. Statistical analysis was done by SPSS (version 18, SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA). Results: The total number of abstracts accepted at the first ICNU was 210 (63 as oral and 147 as poster). The results showed that 49 out of 210 abstracts were published as full-text articles in indexed journals, giving the overall publication rate of 23.3%. 6 out of 49 published papers were in Persian Language. In this survey, the rate of publication was 41.3% for oral presentations. The abstracts of prospective studies and original articles were more likely to be published in journals. The median time to publication was 5.3 months (range 1 - 12 months). Conclusions: Novel ideas and innovative approaches were discussed at the first ICNU, Tehran, Iran, 2015. The 23.3% publication rate found in the current study was lower than the mean publication rate of previous medical congresses. If the presented abstracts in a congress are not published as papers to be available to all, it would be waste of effort and time.

In memoriam: Claus Brun, MD, Dr Med, 1914-2014.

Bo Feldt-Rasmussen1, Lisbet Brandi1 and Klaus Olgaard1 1Department of Nephrology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark Correspondence: Klaus Olgaard, Department of Nephrology, University of Copenhagen, P 2132, Rigshospitalet, 9 Blegdamsvej DK 2100, Copenhagen, Denmark. E-mail: olgaard@rh.dk With the death of Claus Brun, a few months after his 100th birthday, Danish, European, and international nephrology has lost one of its great founding personalities. Claus Brun was a nephrological pioneer, who in the late 1940s introduced the technique of percutaneous kidney biopsy. He created the basis for our understanding of renal histopathology and its correlation with functional and clinical data. He eagerly participated in the international exchange of ideas and was the president of the International Society of Nephrology (ISN) from 1963 to 1966. Claus Brun was born in 1914 in Copenhagen and graduated from the University of Copenhagen in 1940. He became a specialist in clinical biochemistry in 1948 and in nephrology in 1969. Claus Brun’s devotion to nephrology was based on a lifelong scientific and clinical interest in patients with acute and chronic kidney diseases. His studies were based on his work at the Department of Clinical Biochemistry in Copenhagen, and on experiences during his sabbatical from 1952 to 1953 in the United States at the Department of Physiology, New York University, where he worked in the lab of Professor Homer W. Smith. In 1951 Claus Brun, together with Professor Poul Iversen, described the method of percutaneous kidney biopsy in their classical paper “Aspiration biopsy of the kidney” in the American Journal of Medicine. They obtained adequate biopsy tissue in two controls and five patients with various renal diseases, which included acute kidney injury, interstitial nephritis, diabetic nephropathy, nephrocalcinosis, and amyloidosis. Later they reported successful renal biopsies in 42 of 66 patients with minimal bleeding complications. The percutaneous kidney biopsy has since become the major tool for correct renal diagnoses and, as such, provides the basis for optimal treatment for a very large number of patients worldwide. In 1956, Jean Hamburger at Hopital Necker invited Claus Brun to come to Paris and demonstrate the kidney biopsy technique and the histological results, leading to the establishment of an international network of scientists interested in kidney function and disease. In 1960 they organized the First International Congress of Nephrology, with 400 participants. Jean Hamburger became the first president and Claus Brun the second president of the ISN. He was president of the Danish Society of Nephrology in 1969 and was awarded the prestigious Novo Nordisk Award in 1964, and later he received the Knight’s Cross of the Order of the Dannebrog. In 1956 Claus Brun was appointed as chief physician at the Department of Clinical Biochemistry at the Municipal Hospital in Copenhagen, where he worked until his retirement in 1984. There he created one of the first laboratories for kidney histopathology. Claus Brun was known all over the world for his high-quality work. His histological classification of kidney diseases served for years as the gold standard, published as a histological atlas of glomerulonephritis together with professor Steen Olsen. Throughout his long and productive career Claus Brun published a large number of scientific papers, many in the best scientific medical journals. Claus Brun also had a number of interests besides his scientific fascination with kidney biopsies. Thus, in 1968 he and his wife Xenia were invited to visit Bhutan. They became involved in treatment of patients and made an assessment of the overall health situation in that country. Claus Brun went back in 1979 and managed to initiate collaboration between the Bhutanese and the Danish health authorities. In his spare time Claus Brun was an eager ice skater and was always the first on the ice of the small lake where he lived. With the passing of Claus Brun the international medical and nephrology community has lost a brilliant and engaged clinical and experimental nephrologist. Our thoughts and sympathy go to Xenia, his wife, who through all the years has been a deeply involved and essential partner in the life of Claus Brun.

The D&T report

The D&T report

O-linked oligosaccharides of the IgA1 hinge region: roles of its aberrant structure in the occurrence and/or progression of IgA nephropathy

Primary IgA nephropathy (IgAN) has been regarded as an immune complex-mediated glomerulonephritis characterized immunohistologically by the predominant deposition of IgA in the glomerular mesangial area with a variety of histopathologic injuries (Clarkson et al. in Ann Rev Med 38:157-168, 1987). In 1992, the characteristic structure of O-linked oligosaccharides (O-glycans) in the IgA1 hinge and its possible aberrancy were simultaneously and independently proposed by Mesteckey et al. (Cont Nephrol 104:172-182, 1993), and our group (Cont Nephrol 104:217, 1993) at the International Congress of Nephrology (IgA Nephropathy 25th year) held in Nancy, France. Since then, the aberrancy has been confirmed by several research groups and is suspected to play a role in the occurrence and/or the progression of IgAN. At the end of the 1980s, I took an interest in the existence of O-glycans in the hinge region of IgA1 and have pursued the structure of the carbohydrate chains. Since an excellent review on the structure and the role of the carbohydrate in IgA molecules was recently published by Narita et al. (Clin Ex Nephrol 12:332-338, 2008), this review focuses on the process by which I developed the idea of aberrant O-glycosylation in IgA1 molecules in IgAN patients and summarizes our recent observations concerning IgA1 molecules.

La néphrologie clinique francophone de 1945 à 1960 : une tradition physiopathologique

Clinical nephrology in the european french-speaking countries made great strides just after the 2nd World War. The “Société de Pathologie Rénale” was founded and assembles French, Belgian and Swiss nephrologists. The first studies were physiopathological and bore on acute uremia and the associated hydromineral disorders, nephrotic syndromes and the kidney of heart failure. The first treatments of acute renal failure including peritoneal dialysis and hemodialysis were initiated. The concept of medical intensive care was elaborated and targeted on the hydromineral equilibrium. In parallel, the kidney diseases were classified, particularly the glomerular diseases including Berger's disease, owing to examination of the renal sections permitted by renal biopsy. There was a major turning point with the first renal transplantations and the first success to improve recipient tolerance to the graft. All these progress were reported and discussed at the first International Congress of Nephrology in Evian and Geneva in 1960 that was chaired by Jean Hamburger and where was decided the founding of the International Society of Nephrology.

Acceptance of the 2003 A.N. Richards Award

It is a distinct privilege to be the recipient of the prestigious A.N. Richards Award from the ISN, and a special pleasure to be introduced by my long-term collaborator, Professor Dontscho Kerjaschki. I had hoped to be with you in Berlin to accept the award in person and had greatly anticipated being present on this occasion, but family illness prevented me from traveling so far away from home at this particular time. Occasions such as this are a time for reminiscing about memorable events in one’s career. My first reminiscence takes me back to the time in the 1980s when Dontscho Kerjashki was a tremendously successful guest investigator in the laboratory and discovered both megalin and podocalyxin—two molecules that we have now been studying for nearly 20 years. Many of their secrets still remain to be uncovered. Then, there were also reminiscences of when I attended the First International Congress of Nephrology in Evian in 1960 when I was a post-doctoral fellow working on glomerular permeability at the Rockefeller University. This was a memorable occasion on many accounts in that it was my first trip to Europe, but it was particularly memorable because I was an invited speaker while still a “post-doc.” I talked about our findings on the electron microscopy of renal biopsies. I also had the opportunity to spend time with many of the other invited speakers, including Walter Heymann. I had no idea at the time that eventually we would come to work on Heymann nephritis, the disease model he discovered. Others included John Merrill and Jean Hamburger. As you can imagine, I was very impressed and in awe of these great nephrologists, but rather intimidated in their presence, being a lowly “post-doc.” Continuing the reminiscences of my post-doctoral period, I remember the meeting of the New York Society of Pathologists, when I met Jean Oliver, who spent his entire life working on absorption droplets in the proximal tubule. Later, we began to work on protein absorption in the proximal tubule mediated by megalin. I also remember vividly the day we discovered tight junctions—not in the intestine as most of you will probably think, but in, of all places, nephrotic glomeruli. Imagine our excitement when we saw similar junctions in the kidney tubule and intestine and realized their functional significance. I have also ruminated on how I first became interested very early in my career in working on the kidney. It happened when I was a graduate student in pathology at Table 1. Collaborators in Kidney Research (1973–2003)

A Forty Year History 1960–2000

A Forty Year History 1960–2000

Special announcements. 14th Danube symposium on nephrology 3-5 September 1998, Prague, Czech Republic. XVth International Congress of Nephrology and XIth Latin American Congress of Nephrology 2-6 May 1999, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Special announcements. 14th Danube symposium on nephrology 3-5 September 1998, Prague, Czech Republic. XVth International Congress of Nephrology and XIth Latin American Congress of Nephrology 2-6 May 1999, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Report of the ISN President-Elect

In the Council Meeting of the XIJIth International Congress of Nephrology (ICN) in Madrid, Spain, I was nominated as President-Elect of the International Society of Nephrology. It was one of the highest honors in my professional career and I accepted this important responsibility of the Society. I say unexpectedly because I was informed that I was to be a candidate only a few weeks prior to the Congress, and thus I was not prepared for the role. However, due to my commitments as a member of the Scientific Program Committee for the TCN in Tokyo 1990, the 1993 ICN in Jerusalem, and the 1995 ICN in Madrid, I have learned a great deal and have gained insights into the history, activities, and organizational structure of this distinguished Society. These interactions and involvement in the activities of the Society have helped me become acclimated to the job in a timely manner. Over the last two years, under the able and enthusiastic leadership of President Robert W. Schrier, together with the absolutely effective executive offices of Vice-President Thomas E. Andreoli, Secretary General Jan Weening, and Treasurer C. Craig Tisher, the Society has increased its membership, in part through the introduction of a new membership policy for nephrologists in currently economically handicapped countries. This new policy will enable many nephrologists in such to have easier access to current actions in education, training, and the state-ofthe-art technologies in nephrology. Moreover, it will enable the Society's activities to be disseminated into wider areas throughout the world. We all hope more nephrologists worldwide will join the Society to contribute to the prevention and care of patients suffering from renal diseases. One of the many important activities which has contributed greatly to the dissemination of the missions of the Society has been the Commission for Global Advancement of Nephrology, co-chaired by Drs. Barry M. Brenner and John H. Dirks. Under their superb leadership the Commission has reached various parts of currently economically handicapped countries of the world by sending site visit teams which interacted effectively with national societies and local nephrologists and assisted organizing nephrology courses by sending faculty and funds that enabled young nephrologists in some of these to come to such courses. I became a part of those missions by serving as Chair of the Asian Pacific Subcommittee of the Commission. I believe that the Society should continue this Commission on an even greater scale in the coming years. The principal philosophy behind launching such a Commission is our understanding that any international scientific society should try to meet the needs of

Report of the President of the XIVth International Congress of Nephrology

Report of the President of the XIVth International Congress of Nephrology

Corporate Sponsors of the XlVth International Congress of Nephrology

Corporate Sponsors of the XlVth International Congress of Nephrology

Corporate Sponsors of the XIVth International Congress of Nephrology

Corporate Sponsors of the XIVth International Congress of Nephrology

The XIVth International Congress of Nephrology: Incorporating the VIIth Asian Pacific Congress of Nephrology and the 33rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Nephrology

The XIVth International Congress of Nephrology: Incorporating the VIIth Asian Pacific Congress of Nephrology and the 33rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Nephrology

Corporate Sponsors of the XIVth International Congress of Nephrology

Corporate Sponsors of the XIVth International Congress of Nephrology

XIIth International Congress of Nephrology: Guidelines for the Submission of Abstracts: Deadline for Receipt of Abstracts: December 15, 1992

XIIth International Congress of Nephrology: Guidelines for the Submission of Abstracts: Deadline for Receipt of Abstracts: December 15, 1992

Renal Dietetics in Japan: A Perspective

An International Dietitians' Meeting was organized as part of the 11th International Congress of Nephrology in Tokyo during July 1990. The specialization of renal dietetics in Japan is in the early stages of development. The primary differences between the Japanese and American renal diet include lower protein restriction of 40 to 50 g due to smaller body size; common use of low-protein food products; and liberal sodium restriction of 8 g necessitated by characteristics of traditional diet. The complexity of incorporating the renal diet into the Japanese life-style as done in the United States is not attempted in Japan; rather, the renal restrictions take precedence and compliance is expected. Western influence of fast food franchises and life-style changes with increased incidence of hypertension, heart attack, and stroke are beginning to heighten the awareness in Japan of the need for prevention of chronic diseases.

Xth International Congress of Nephrology

Xth International Congress of Nephrology

Correction: Resorcinol and Hypothyroidism

Letters and Corrections1 November 1977Correction: Resorcinol and HypothyroidismEDWARD B. RUBY, M.D.EDWARD B. RUBY, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-87-5-637_2 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptTo the editor: The article by Dr. Katin and colleagues, "Resorcinol-Induced Hypothyroidism in a Patient on Chronic Hemodialysis" (Ann Intern Med86:447-449, 1977), was certainly of great interest. However, they stated that "the T3R stabilized at a lower than normal level, probably a reflection of decreased binding proteins (albumin, 3.5 g/dl and total proteins, 5.7 g/dl)." Since, according to their article, T3R was meant to represent T3resin uptake, the quoted sentence is obviously in error. As is widely known, the technique of the T3resin uptake is such that with a decrease in thyroid hormone-binding proteins there is an...Reference1. INGBARWOEBER SK: The thyroid gland, in Textbook of Endocrinology, 5th ed., edited by WILLIAMS RH. Philadelphia, W.B. Saunders Company, 1974, pp. 137-140 Google Scholar1. LIMFANGREFETOFFKATZ VVSA: T3 hypothyroidism in uremia: impaired T4 to T3 conversion. International Congress of Nephrology, Florence, Italy, Abstract No. 636, 1975 Google Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics 1 November 1977Volume 87, Issue 5Page: 637-638KeywordsAlbuminsHypothyroidismProteinsThyroid hormonesTriiodothyronine Issue Published: 1 November 1977 PDF downloadLoading ...

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:Urinary Incontinence. Edited by K. P. S. Caldwell.Proceedings of The Fifth International Congress of Nephrology, Mexico 1972. Edited by Herman Villareal. Basle; KargerAcid‐base and Electrolyte Balance. Gosta Rooth.New Encyclopedia of Surgical Technique. Volume 15. Urology and the Male Genital System. R. Couvelaire and J. Cukier.The Biology and Clinical Management of Bladder Cancer By E. H. Cooper and R. E. Williams.Reviews in Paediatric Urology. Ed. by J. H. Johnston and W. E. Goodwin.Urologic Surgery. Ed. by James F. Glenn.Urinary Diversion Stomas: A Guide for Patients and Nurses. By Eileen M. Spraggon.Drugs and the Kidney. Ed. by K. D. G. Edwards.The Mammalian Kidney. By D. B. Moffat.

V International Congress of Nephrology

V International Congress of Nephrology