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Presenter: Daniel, Abramowicz, Antwerp, Belgium
Authors: Daniel Abramowicz
Daniel Abramowicz, MD, PhD, is professor of nephrology and since 2013 head of the department of Nephrology-Hypertension of the Antwerp University Hospital and University of Antwerp (Belgium). He was formerly the head of the renal transplantation program at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium where more than 2500 renal transplantation have been performed.
Dr. Abramowicz has completed a doctoral thesis in 1994, on "Induction of transplantation tolerance in mice". He is author and co-author of more than 200 articles dealing mainly with immunosuppressive regimens in renal transplantation, that have been published among others in Transplantation, Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, American Journal of Transplantation, and Kidney International.
Dr. Abramowicz is Subject Editor for Transplantation for Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation. He was a member of the expert group that issued the European Best Practice Guidelines on renal transplantation in 2000 and 2002, and is now member of the European Renal Best Practice advisory board of the ERA-EDTA.
(http://www.european-renal-best-practice.org). He has chaired a working party commissioned by the European Renal Best Practice advisory board to update the European guidelines on renal transplantation. He is chairman of the Descartes ERA-EDTA working group on Transplantation (http://www.era-edta.org/descartes/descartes.htm).
After the webinar, the attendees should have learned the main issues to be assessed before wait-listing a patient with regards to malignancies, cardiovascular diseases, recurrence of native kidney disease, necessity for pre-transplant nephrectomy, listing of HIV patients, necessity to dialyse the patient pre-Tx, and how to deal with obesity and smoking pre-transplant.
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