This paper is a timely review of natural disasters in the Asia-Pacific and the provision of urgent dialysis care, including local experience and impact on patients and staff.

This manuscript suggests that rather than the most recent serum creatinine, using the minimum preadmission serum cretainine value allows more accurate identification of patients with acute kidney injury at risk of adverse outcomes.

This manuscript describes the continued high prevalence of acute kidney injury among the poor in Pakistan due to easy availability of toxic paraphenylene diamine used as hair dye.

This study shows that blockade of programmed death 1 and its ligands did not augment the renal injury in non-autoimmune circulating immune complex glomerulonephritis, in contrast to autoimmune-mediated disease.

In this study, the authors reported outcomes of primary glomerulonephritis in patients enrolled in the New Zealand Glomerulonephritis Study. In this one of the longest follow-up studies on biopsy-proven glomerulonephritides, the authors found that age, hypertension and severity of chronic kidney disease at diagnosis were strong predictors of the development of end-stage kidney disease and death.

This case-control study was designed to assess the association between CCDC132, FDX1 and TNFSF13 gene polymorphisms and the risk of IgA nephropathy in Chinese Han population.

In this article, the authors measured the urinary mRNA levels of several innate immunity associated functional molecules in paediatric IgAN patients and demonstrated that fractalkine was significantly correlated with the histological activity index and the chronicity index. They concluded that measurement of mRNA expression of fractalkine in urinary sediment could use as a non-invasive method for predicting histologic severity in IgAN in children.

The authors found that supplementation of sesame oil mitigates DOCA/salt induced chronic kidney disease in rats by activating nuclear Nrf2 and attenuating osteopontin expression and inhibiting renal fibrosis in rats.

Deferasirox, an oral iron chelating agent, has been reported to induce Fanconi syndrome. In this cohort study 5 out of 57 patients with thalassaemia, treated with deferasirox, developed a Fancni syndrome that manifested as a proximal renal tubular acidosis and hypophosphataemia. Children receiving deferasirox treatment for their thalassaemia should have regular screening for the early detection of Fanconi Syndrome.

This paper provides a validation of the KDIGO risk stratification in a Chinese population living in China, based on a combination of eGFR and proteinuria.

This paper demonstrates a correlation between the presence of proteinuria and major adverse cardiovascular events, graft failure and death post kidney transplantation.