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History of nephrologyTrials - see Research

 

Renal Organisations

UK
International

Advisory Committee on the Safety of Blood, Tissues and Organs (SaBTO)

Association of Renal Technicians

American Society of Nephrology
British Association of Paediatric NephrologyAmerican Transplantation Society
British Renal SocietyAustralian Kidney Foundation
British Transplantation SocietyInternational Society of Nephrology
Kidney AllianceInternational Society for Peritoneal Dialysis
Kidney Research UKItalian Society of Nephrology
National Kidney FederationNational Kidney Foundation (USA)
National Services Framework (UK)National Kidney Foundation, Singapore (NKFS)
Renal Registry (UK)Registries - see registry page
Renovascular forumSpanish Society of Nephrology
Scottish Renal Registry
Specialist Registrar Club 
ULTRA - the Unrelated Live Transplant Regulatory Authority 

 

Journals

American Journal of Kidney Diseases Journal of the National Kidney Foundation (US)
British Journal of Renal Medicine (multiprofessional)
British Medical Journal see also the renal medicine collection
Clinical Science
Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
Journal of Clinical Investigation
Journal of Nephrology Journal of the Italian Society of Nephrology
Kidney International Journal of the International Society of Nephrology
Lancet
Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation Journal of the ERA-EDTA
Nephron (in Clinical Practice, Physiology, and Experimental Nephrology sections)
New England Journal of Medicine see also the collection of kidney disease articles
Transplantation Journal of the Transplantation Society
Transplant International Journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation


History of nephrology

Modern Nephrology and Renal Replacement Therapy
EdREN - history of RRT - overview of history of HD, PD, Transplantation, and local information from Edinburgh
HDCN history links and resources
Stanley Shaldon - fascinating online illustrated lecture from a pioneer of home haemodialysis.  You can find some clips on YouTube
ISN video legacy project and other resources
History of peritoneal dialysis from the ISPD
Short picture history of HD from Fresenius Medical Care
The modified Kolff-Brigham kidney in the Korean War - a movie from the Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Guide to collections relating to the history of artificial organs - from the National Library of Medicine (US) and ASAIO
Milestones in transplantation from Novartis
Timeline of transplantation from the Transplant Network
The first successful transplants in man - Nobel prize lecture, Joseph Murray 1990

Early Nephrology
Richard Bright 1789-1858 - from the Roscoe Robinson Collection at Vanderbilt University: the first accounts of albuminuria and dropsy, published in Vol.1 of Reports of Medical Cases Selected with a View of Illustrating the Symptoms and Cure of Diseases by a Reference to Morbid Anatomy, 1827.
Robert Christison 1795-1882 - promoted and extended Bright's observations and first described renal anaemia, and was a founder of modern toxicology and major contributor to the first British Pharmacopoeia in 1864. Published On granular degeneration of the kidnies and its connexion with dropsy, inflammations, and other diseases in 1839. Archives
Pierre Rayer 1793-1867 - Some information -
 
The UK Renal Association
The British Association of Paediatric Nephrology