Announcing: latest issue of the eJIFCC 2009, Vol 20 no 1 

Editorial: The Eight EFCC Continuous Postgraduate Course in Clinical Chemistry:
New Trends in Classification, Diagnosis and Management of Kidney Disease

The Croatian Society of Medical Biochemists and Slovenian Association for Clinical Chemistry, together with the European Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (EFCC), have organized the eight in a series of postgraduate weekend courses under the auspices of IFCC. The Course entitled “New Trends in Classification, Diagnosis and Management of Kidney Diseases” promotes continuing postgraduate education of professionals in clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine, and ensures the laboratory knowledge harmonization, this time on kidney disease in particular.

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1. PATHOPHYSIOLOGY AND CLASSIFICATION OF KIDNEY DISEASES

2. INFLAMMATION, CYTOKINES AND CHEMOKINES IN CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE

3. PODOCYTE INJURY IN GLOMERULAR DISEASES

4. KIDNEYS AND AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE

5. HEREDITARY KIDNEY DISORDERS

6. DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY

7. DRUG-INDUCED KIDNEY INJURY

8. DYSLIPIDEMIA AT CHRONIC RENAL FAILURE

9. GFR - WHERE ARE WE NOW?

10. CARDIOVASCULAR RISK IN CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE

11. LABORATORY STANDARDS IN THE DIAGNOSIS AND MONITORING OF THERAPY

12. THE URINARY PROTEOMICS: A TOOL TO DISCOVER NEW AND POTENT BIOMARKERS FOR KIDNEY DAMAGE

13. POINT-OF-CARE CREATININE TESTING IN HIGH-RISK PATIENTS

14. RECENT APPROACHES TO THERAPY: IS THERE REAL PROGRESS?

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