2-day CME begins at PGI today

Tribune News Services

Chandigarh, February 21

Lupus nephritis and glomerulonephritis are an important cause of kidney disease and account for up to 20 per cent of end stage renal disease requiring dialysis. This will be taken up during a two-day CME on lupus nephritis and glomerular nephritis to be held on Friday and Saturday at the PGI.

The management of these clinical entities are controversial, given paucity of evidence. In the CME, the Department of Nephrology intends to discuss various aspects of glomerulonephritis. The speakers include world authority in glomerular disease from the USA 

and Hong Kong. Difficult clinical scenarios for which there are no guidelines would also be discussed to improve the existing knowledge on glomerular disease.

Prof Jai Radha Krishnan from Columbia University, New York, USA, will be speaking on “anti-phospholipid antibody syndrome”, update on the management of TMA and FSGS. Prof Brad Rovin from the USA will be speaking on “emerging therapies in glomerular nephritis and role of kidney biopsy in lupus nephritis”.

Dr DTM Chan from Hong Kong would be speaking on “current status of lupus nephritis management”. Prof Praveen Singhal and Prof Sumanth Chugh would speak on “advances in the pathogenesis of proteinuric kidney disease”. The CME will be attended by 250 members across the country and south Asia.