CME-ERA-EDTA 2010

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On behalf of the Scientific Committee, we are pleased to announce the organisation of the the 3^rd ERA-EDTA CME Course in France on April 1^st 2010 in Bordeaux.

The Scientific Committee has taken great care to prepare a high-quality and varied programme that will incorporate the latest developments and idea in basic science, transitional and clinical science, to be presented in the form of lectures followed by roundtable.

Although short-term kidney graft survival has improved in recent years, the focus has shifted to the challenge of improving long-term graft survival. Acute rejection, chronic allograft nephropathy, and cardiovascular disease are associated with graft loss and patient death. Reducing the potential for such post-transplantation complications may improve long-term graft survival.

In addition, gaining a better understanding of the role that various immunosuppressive therapies have in decreasing the risk for graft injury will help clinicians make better-informed decisions about appropriate treatment regimens for individual kidney transplant recipients.

Improvements in transplantation practices, immunosuppressive agents, and management of comorbid conditions have led to better outcomes for kidney transplant recipients. Transplantation has become the treatment of choice for patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD). This has resulted in continued growth in the number of patients living with a functioning kidney allograft as a percentage of the total ESRD population. Community nephrologists are the logical choice to assume responsibility for the post transplantation care of these patients after discharge from transplant centers when they are stabilized. These patients require long-term follow-up care, which already is straining the limited resources of transplant centers.

Optimal management of kidney transplant recipients depends on regular interactive communication between the patient’s community nephrologists and the transplant center. Open communication will not only facilitate the initial transition of care, it also will decrease the frequency of referrals back to the transplant center.

In an ideal situation, the transplant center and community nephrologists would develop and discuss plans for discharge and transition of care for the individual patient before the actual kidney transplantation. Important issues for effective communication include exchanges in laboratory results and kidney function, pretransplantation and posttransplantation comorbid conditions, surgical complications, or adverse effects of medications, modifications to immunosuppressive therapy or other medications, recurrent hospitalizations or emergency care, and exchanges in biopsy results.

Last but not the least, the surrogate anatomopathologic marker of long term complications, i.e the - Interstial Fibrosis/Tubular Atrophy (IF/AT), the new definition of Chronic Allograft Nephropathy (C.A.N.)

will be the driver of this 3^th French CME course.

We aim to target this medical event to young nephrologists, nephrologists involved in the long term follow up of renal transplant patients in coordination with the renal transplant center.

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The aims of ERA-EDTA CME COURSE are to :

• Provide an update related to long term cardiovascular and metabolic complications in Renal Transplantation
• Gather the key opinion leaders in the field of “long term cardiovascular and metabolic complications in Renal Transplantation”
• Give the opportunity to participant to share experience (1) between nephrologists from renal transplant patients and community nephrologists and (2) between nephrologists from different european countries

During this congress we will mainly discuss on the controversies, recent advances and last recommendations given by international invited speakers. Please find bellow the program of this CME.

Dr Gerard London
ERA-EDTA III Congress President

Please click here to access to Program

Please click here to access to Abstract book Index and Order Form

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Sponsors of 3rd ERA EDTA CME Course

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