Teaching Cases in Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation

Dear Colleagues,

Kidney and Dialysis is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal on nephrology and dialysis published quarterly online by MDPI. Kidney and Dialysis runs Topical Collection to create collections of papers on specific topics. The aim is to build a community of authors and readers to discuss the latest research and develop new ideas and research directions. Collection Editors who are experts in the subject and oversee the editorial process for papers lead Topical Collection.

Now we start a new initiative—we aim to collect and publish intriguing case reports as teaching tools in nephrology dialysis and transplantation.

One of the charms of nephrology is that it deals with very heterogeneous patients, and with very heterogeneous diseases.

In nephrology, probably more than in any other discipline, exceptions teach rules, and the educational value of discussing single intriguing cases is high.

With this in mind, we would like to dedicate a section of Kidney and Dialysis to the discussion of intriguing cases in nephrology, dialysis and transplantation.

In this section, we would like first to share experience: if a case has challenged and intrigued us, it will probably intrigue others, and reading about it may give a clue, or at least a hint, to the diagnosis.

Please share with us your intriguing cases, highlighting their main messages and the main difficulties you experienced on the way to diagnosis and/or in their management.

The devil is often in the details: we do not want to share “me-too” cases, or show “how good” we have been. We would like to ease the pathway for our colleagues facing a difficult case.

Our goal will be reached when many colleagues say: ”Ah, I saw a similar case on KiD (Kidney and Dialysis), it helped our diagnostic pathway….”

Welcome to KiD, and welcome to the “Intriguing case” series!

We hope this topic is of interest to you, and for submissions by 22 December 2023, we will offer publication free of charge.

Prof. Dr. Giorgina Barbara Piccoli
Dr. Elena Zakharova
Collection Editors

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