PRESIDENTS MESSAGE
14th November 2018
I am sure all of you had a joyous Diwali! When the year of 2018 is coming to a closure, looking back, we had a fruitful year. The 13th annual conference of our society at Kolkata planned and executed to perfection by Dr. Sudipto Roy has now created a standard in itself. Many of our members have supported local groups aspiring to learn and develop Nephro-pathology in different parts of the country by contributing as faculty or designing programs from basics in Renal Pathology to advances in transplant pathology. The society has grown to hold a good life membership of more than 200 members, annual members close to 100 and overseas renowned Nephropathologists. We need to have more active teaching and interesting cases on the website. Our first attempt at reviewing the scenario of Indian glomerulonephritis received enthusiastic support in the form of study of IgA nephropathy from different parts of the country. Overall incidence of IgA nephropathy varied from 8% to 13% of all native biopsies affecting males and females almost equally. Interestingly hypertension, proteinuria and chronic kidney diseases were more common in our population compared to western or Japanese studies. This could be attributed to absence of surveillance studies in our country. Indian studies have found little clinical correlation with MEST-C scores. This study emphasizes the need of surveillance in our population especially in children so that we can have healthy citizens for tomorrow. Dr. Manoj Jain and Dr. Vinita Agrawal are gearing up for the next annual conference scheduled in Lucknow sometime in October 2019. We can plan out for publishing a meta-analysis of IgA nephropathy before the next conference and select a topic for common discussion for this upcoming event. It is sad that India is likely to be the diabetic capital of the world by the year 2030. Hence we can take up a meta-analysis of diabetic nephropathy in India or any other relevant topic of common interest to all of us. Suggestions from all the members for other topics are also welcome.
With warm regards,
Aruna Vanikar, MD, PhD, FICPath, DLitt,
Professor and Head, Dept. of Pathology, Laboratory Medicine, Transfusion Services and Immunohematology, and Professor, Dept. of Cell Therapy and Regenerative Medicine,
G.R.Doshi and K.M. Mehta Institute of Kidney Diseases and Research Centre (IKDRC)-
Dr. H.L. Trivedi Institute of Transplantation Sciences (ITS),
Civil hospital campus, Asarwa, Ahmedabad 380016, Gujarat, India
Tel: +91 79 22687387
14th November 2018
I am sure all of you had a joyous Diwali! When the year of 2018 is coming to a closure, looking back, we had a fruitful year. The 13th annual conference of our society at Kolkata planned and executed to perfection by Dr. Sudipto Roy has now created a standard in itself. Many of our members have supported local groups aspiring to learn and develop Nephro-pathology in different parts of the country by contributing as faculty or designing programs from basics in Renal Pathology to advances in transplant pathology. The society has grown to hold a good life membership of more than 200 members, annual members close to 100 and overseas renowned Nephropathologists. We need to have more active teaching and interesting cases on the website. Our first attempt at reviewing the scenario of Indian glomerulonephritis received enthusiastic support in the form of study of IgA nephropathy from different parts of the country. Overall incidence of IgA nephropathy varied from 8% to 13% of all native biopsies affecting males and females almost equally. Interestingly hypertension, proteinuria and chronic kidney diseases were more common in our population compared to western or Japanese studies. This could be attributed to absence of surveillance studies in our country. Indian studies have found little clinical correlation with MEST-C scores. This study emphasizes the need of surveillance in our population especially in children so that we can have healthy citizens for tomorrow. Dr. Manoj Jain and Dr. Vinita Agrawal are gearing up for the next annual conference scheduled in Lucknow sometime in October 2019. We can plan out for publishing a meta-analysis of IgA nephropathy before the next conference and select a topic for common discussion for this upcoming event. It is sad that India is likely to be the diabetic capital of the world by the year 2030. Hence we can take up a meta-analysis of diabetic nephropathy in India or any other relevant topic of common interest to all of us. Suggestions from all the members for other topics are also welcome.
With warm regards,
Aruna Vanikar, MD, PhD, FICPath, DLitt,
Professor and Head, Dept. of Pathology, Laboratory Medicine, Transfusion Services and Immunohematology, and Professor, Dept. of Cell Therapy and Regenerative Medicine,
G.R.Doshi and K.M. Mehta Institute of Kidney Diseases and Research Centre (IKDRC)-
Dr. H.L. Trivedi Institute of Transplantation Sciences (ITS),
Civil hospital campus, Asarwa, Ahmedabad 380016, Gujarat, India
Tel: +91 79 22687387