Turkish Society of Nephrology

Valikonagi Cad.
Sakayik Sok.
Polat Apt. No: 63/1
Nisantasi
Istanbul
Turkey

Phone: +90-212-219-4882
Fax: +90-212-219-4883
E-Mail: info@tsn.org.tr

TSN Web site: www.tsn.org.tr
Congress Web site:
www.nefroloji.kongresi.info
 

  Notes from 12. ISPD Congress-Istanbul 2008

 
Notes from 12. ISPD Congress-Istanbul 2008 12. International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis (ISPD) Congress was held in İstanbul Lütfi Kırdar Congress Center June 20-24 2008 with collaboration with Turkish Society of Nephrology.


  TSN SYNOPSIS 2008
  Brief History and Current Information

  TSN (www.tsn.org.tr) and Scientific Activities by Turkish Nephrologists
  Local Meetings and Local Activities

  The Renal Disaster Task Force of the TSN

  The Turkish Nephrology Dialysis and Transplantation Journal (TNDT)
It is the Official Journal of the TSN with peer review published
4 issues per year. Currently the 17th volume is being published. Articles are in Turkish or in English but all have abstracts both in Turkish and English. TSN National Congress Abstracts are also published in TNDT supplement issues. The journal also publishes supplements devoted to special topics covered in various educational meetings and courses organized by TSN.
  Scientific Performance by Turkish Nephrologists
From 1960 to 2000, Turkish authors have published 840 articles in peer reviewed international journals. As evidence of the recent progress in the number and quality of the scientific work and output in Turkish Nephrology, 735 of these were published between 1990 and 2000. In 2004, a total of 224 articles by Turkish Nephrologists were published in peer-reviewed in international journals indexed by Medline. In 2006, 91 original articles were submitted by Turkish authors to the journal Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation (NDT) alone and Turkey ranked 6th after Germany amongst overall submissions to this journal.
  Turkish Participation to Recent ERA-EDTA Congresses
Madrid, 1999
187 abstracts submitted (15.7% of submitted abstracts) (2nd following Italy)
Nice, 2000
176 abstracts submitted (11 % of submitted abstracts) (2nd following Italy )
Vienna, 2001
179 abstracts submitted (11.7 % of submitted abstracts) (2nd following Italy). 5% of the attendance was from Turkey (4th after Italy, Germany & Poland)
Copenhagen, 2002
9% (109/1186) of oral and poster presentations made at the Congress were by Turkish authors
4 oral presentations from Turkey were award winners.
WCN, Berlin, 2003
219 abstracts submitted (5.5% of submitted abstracts) (4th following Italy)
Lisbon, 2004
186 abstracts submitted (10 % of submitted abstracts) (2nd following Italy) 
100 abstracts accepted (8.3 % of accepted abstracts) (3rd following Poland)
Mean Score of accepted abstracts: 13
Istanbul, 2005
258 abstracts submitted (13 % of submitted abstracts)
(1st amongst 100 countries represented)
117 abstracts accepted (11 % of all abstracts accepted for oral & poster presentation)
(2nd following Italy)
Glasgow, 2006
208 abstracts submitted (9.1 % of submitted abstracts)
(2nd after Italy amongst 106 countries represented)
121 abstracts accepted (7.5 % of all abstracts accepted for oral & poster presentation)
(2nd following Italy)  
Barcelona, 2007
187 abstracts submitted (9.5 % of submitted abstracts)
(2nd after Italy amongst 90 countries represented)
99 abstracts accepted (8.3 % of all abstracts accepted for oral & poster presentation)
(2nd following Italy)