The Renal Association

Links

On this page

• Renal organisations
• Journals
• History of nephrology
• Patient resources - see Patients
• Prescribing - see Resources
• Trials - see Research

Renal Organisations

UK

• Advisory Committee on the Safety of Blood, Tissues and Organs (SaBTO)
• Association of Renal Technicians
• British Association of Paediatric Nephrology
• British Renal Society
• British Transplantation Society
• Kidney Alliance
• Kidney Research UK
• National Kidney Federation
• National Services Framework (UK)
• Renal Registry (UK)
• Renovascular forum
• Scottish Renal Registry
• Specialist Registrar Club
• ULTRA - the Unrelated Live Transplant Regulatory Authority

International

• American Society of Nephrology
• American Transplantation Society
• Australian Kidney Foundation
• International Society of Nephrology
• International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis
• Italian Society of Nephrology
• National Kidney Foundation (USA)
• National Kidney Foundation, Singapore (NKFS)
• Registries - see registry page
• Spanish Society of Nephrology

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
• Nephrology oral history project - interviews with (US) early dialysis docs
• 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="_blank">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