Kidney disease in Latin America: current status, challenges, and the role of the ISN in the development of nephrology in the region

Affiliations

¹ School of Medicine, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil. Electronic address: r.pecoits@pucpr.br.
² División de Epidemiología, Ministerio de Salud, Montevideo, Uruguay.
³ Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City, Mexico.
⁴ Hospital Obrero #2 - C.N.S., Universidad Mayor de San Simon, School of Medicine, Cochabamba, Bolivia.
⁵ Servicio de Nefrologia, Hospital Privado Universitario de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina.
⁶ Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA.

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Roberto Pecoits-Filho et al. Kidney Int. 2018 Dec.

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. 2018 Dec;94(6):1069-1072.

doi: 10.1016/j.kint.2018.07.026.

¹ School of Medicine, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil. Electronic address: r.pecoits@pucpr.br.
² División de Epidemiología, Ministerio de Salud, Montevideo, Uruguay.
³ Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City, Mexico.
⁴ Hospital Obrero #2 - C.N.S., Universidad Mayor de San Simon, School of Medicine, Cochabamba, Bolivia.
⁵ Servicio de Nefrologia, Hospital Privado Universitario de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina.
⁶ Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA.

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Keywords: acute kidney injury; chronic kidney disease; dialysis; hemodialysis; peritoneal.

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Sabath E. Sabath E. Kidney Int. 2019 Oct;96(4):1038. doi: 10.1016/j.kint.2018.11.049. Kidney Int. 2019. PMID: 31543139 No abstract available.
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Pecoits-Filho R, Sola L, Correa-Rotter R, Claure-Del Granado R, Douthat WG, Bellorin-Font E. Pecoits-Filho R, et al. Kidney Int. 2019 Oct;96(4):1038-1039. doi: 10.1016/j.kint.2019.06.012. Kidney Int. 2019. PMID: 31543140 No abstract available.