Kidney biopsies among persons living in hotspots of CKDu: a position statement from the International Society of Nephrology's Consortium of Collaborators on CKDu

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka. Electronic address: [email protected].
• ² Division of Nephrology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; Division of Nephrology, William Osler Health System, Brampton, Ontario, Canada.
• ³ Department of Medicine (Nephrology), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.
• ⁴ Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
• ⁵ Department of Renal Medicine, University College London, London, UK; Department of Nephrology, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
• ⁶ Nephrology and Kidney Transplant Division, Social Security Guatemalan Institute, Concepción, Guatemala.
• ⁷ Section of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Hospital Dr. Gustavo Nelson Collado, Chitré, Herrera, Panama; Instituto de Ciencias Médicas and Sistema Nacional de Investigación, Las Tablas, Los Santos, Panamá.
• ⁸ Division of Nephrology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
• ⁹ Division of Nephrology, Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia Ignacio Chávez, Mexico City, Mexico.
• ¹⁰ George Institute for Global Health, UNSW, New Delhi, India; School of Public Health, Imperial College, London, UK; Prasanna School of Public Health, Manipal Academy of Medical Education, Manipal, India.
• ¹¹ Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, USA.
• ¹² Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
• ¹³ Division of Nephrology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, USA.