Many thanks to everybody who took part in ISN’s biennial World Congress of Nephrology (WCN). It was a great pleasure to host this congress in the wonderful city of Cape Town, South Africa.
For those who were unable to attend the event, ISN Education has prepared this comprehensive reperitory of presentations that given during the Congress.
We hope to see you in Mexico City from April 21 to 25, 2017 for WCN 2017.
WCN 2015 presentations organised by session:
Plenary Sessions:
Precongress Continuous Nephrology Education Courses:
Continuous Nephrology Education (English): Precongress CNE – Fluid and electrolyte disturbances
DPC pr?-Congr?s – ?quilibre et d?s?quilibres hydro-?lectrolytiques (Fran?ais)
CNE (English): CNE on acute kidney injury in adults and children
Renal Pathology Couses
Precongress Renal pathology primer
Renal pathology course: Renal pathology in Africa: Present and future
Renal pathology course: Nephrotic syndrome: Updates
Renal pathology course: Postinfectious and membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis
Renal pathology course: Lupus Nephritis, IgA Nephropathy and ANCA Glomerulonephritis
Renal pathology course: Vasculopathies
Renal pathology course: Hereditary nephropathies and glomerular disease in South America
Renal pathology course: Tubular and tubulointerstitial diseases
Renal pathology course: Transplant pathology
Renal pathology course: Renal pathology challenges and solutions in Africa
Special Sessions:
Allied Health Professionals Symposium
The 0by25 Initiative: Progress and achievements so far (special session)
Theme 1: Infectious and non-infectious risk factors
Session 1: Perinatal origins of health and disease and the kidney
Session 2: The genetic revolution has entered real life
Session 2: New advances in the pathobiology of glomerular diseases
Session 3: Novel insights into HIV infection: Future targets for therapy
Session 4: APOL1: A rapidly evolving story (in partnership with ASN)
Session 5: HIV nephropathy in the cART era (in partnership with AFRAN)
Session 6: Schistosomiasis infections: From basic science to translation (in partnership with AFRAN)
Session 7: Diabetic nephropathy: New insights from the bench to the bedside
Session 9: Water intake: The good, the bad and the ugly
Theme 2: Translational and clinical nephrology
Session 1: Mitochondria: Not only “powerhouses”
Session 2: Kidney fibrosis: The road to the end
Session 3: IgA Nephropathy: What have we learned in the last 5 years?
Session 4: Congenital anomalies of the kidney and urinary tract: Prenatal through adulthood
Session 5: Novel therapies for ADPKD: The road forward
Session 6: Membranous nephropathy: Toward personalized diagnosis and therapy
Session 7: ANCA vasculitis: Time to reconsider ontology and treatment
Session 8: Lupus nephritis: A story of old and new drugs
Session 9: Nephrotic Syndrome: Will recent advances impact on patients care?
Theme 3: Acute kidney injury (AKI)
Session 2: Acute renal failure in the tropics
Session 4: AKI around the world
Session 4: Pre-eclampsia: A planetary view
Session 5: Targeting recovery from AKI (in partnership with Nature Reviews Nephrology)
Session 6: The kidney in children with critical illness in the developing world
Session 7: Saving young lives – Training in acute PD (in partneship with IPNA)
Session 8: Critical care nephrology update
Session 9: Managing AKI: Emerging issues
Theme 4: CKD and its consequences
Session 1: Management of mineral disorders in CKD and ESRD
Session 2: Pregnancy: A risk at all stages of CKD
Session 3: From pediatric to adult CKD
Session 4: Towards new therapeutic strategies of anemia for renal patients
Session 7: Lost in translation: How to effectively retard progression in CKD
Session 8: Economy constraints to CKD identification and treatment in developing countries
Theme 5: Dialysis and transplantation
Session 1: Joint ERA-EDTA/ ISN Symposium: Setting up dialysis registries
Session 4: Bridging the gap: Transitions between and within dialysis and transplantation
Session 5: Recurrent disease after kidney transplantation
Session 6: Rejection in kidney transplantation
Session 7: Transplantation in the infected patient (A joint ISN/TTS Session)
Session 8: Peritoneal dialysis (A joint ISN/ISPD Session)
Session 9: Emerging viral infections: A global threat beyond Africa
CLICK HERE for the post-event page for WCN 2015.