Over the last two years, a working group of European Renal Best Practice (ERBP) has established a guideline concerning the evaluation and preparation of donor and recipient of a kidney transplant, in the pre-transplantation and peri-operative period.

We have now finalized this interesting process, which, as you can imagine, was hard work for all members of the group.

The prevalence of major depression in stage 5 chronic kidney disease (CKD) is high. Patients with CKD who are depressed have a worse quality of life, are hospitalized more often and die sooner than those who are not depressed. Antidepressant drugs are effective in the general population, but whether they improve outcomes in CKD is uncertain.

Beginning of 2012, KDIGO presented their guidance on management of AKI, in a very extensive document. Starting from this, ERBP formed two work groups to summarize and update this guideline in a position statement.