Wim Van Biesen

Oral presentations - XLII Annual ESAO Congress, 2-5 September 2015, Leuven, Belgium

Abstracts from the XLII Congress of the European Society for Artificial Organs, 2-5 September 2015, Leuven, Belgium.

European guidelines on when to start dialysis: check the facts first before commenting

To the Editor: In his article commenting on the European Renal Best Practice (ERBP) position statement on when to start dialysis,1 Steven Rosansky disagrees with the European guidelines2 and proposes his own recommendation that dialysis should not be started until the patient is symptomatic.

Diseases of the native kidneys in dialysis and transplanted patients

The native kidneys in patients on dialysis or after kidney transplantation tend to be overlooked until problems occur in relation to them. These problems can be variable and do not bear any consistent relationship to the cause of the renal failure, although in some cases, such as polycystic kidney disease, there are specific changes to be seen. This chapter will review several issues that are related to either functional or structural alterations that occur in the native kidneys in patients treated with either hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis (PD) or kidney transplantation.