A special debt of gratitude is owed to the KDIGO Co-Chairs Kai-Uwe Eckardt, Bertram Kasiske, David Wheeler, and the KDIGO Board for their invaluable guidance throughout the development of this guideline. In particular, we thank the ERT members: Katrin Uhlig, Dana Miskulin, Amy Earley, Shana Haynes, and Jenny Lamont for their substantial contribution to the rigorous assessment of the available evidence. We are also especially grateful to the Work Group members for their expertise throughout the entire process of literature review, data extraction, meeting participation, the critical writing and editing of the statements and rationale, which made the publication of this guideline possible. The generous gift of their time and dedication is greatly appreciated. The entire Work Group and its Co-Chairs would also like to extend a special debt of gratitude to Michael Cheung, who has committed time and energy above and beyond, to the formatting and proof reading of the completed manuscript. Without his help, we would have been hard pushed to complete this task. Finally, and on behalf of the Work Group, we gratefully acknowledge the careful assessment of the draft guideline by external reviewers. The Work Group considered all of the valuable comments made and where appropriate, suggested changes were incorporated into the final publication. The following individuals provided feedback during the public review of the draft guideline:
Mario Abbud-Filho; Hugo Abensur; Patricia Abreu; Matias Abuchanab; Nasrulla Abutaleb; Anil K Agarwal; Ahmed Akl; Mona Al-Rukhaimi; Fernando A Almeida; Altun Bulent; Maria Almerinda Ribeiro Alves; Pablo Amair; Richard Amerling; Alessandro Amore; Ryoichi Ando; Rajeev Annigeri; Ramadan Arafa; Mustafa Arici; Mariano Arriola; Ferruh Artunc; Suheir Assady; Marcelo Rodrigues Bacci; Ashraf AM Bakr; Breda Peèovnik Balon; Rashad S Barsoum; Don Batisky; Dawlat Belal; Mohammed Benyahia; Murray Berall; Anatole Besarab; Premila Bhat; Mar Biechy; Patrick Biggar; Brenda Brewer; Inga Arune Bumblyte; Jian-Fang Cai; Rafael Burgos Calderon; Bernard Canaud; Jorge B Cannata-Andía; Antonio Carlos Duarte Cardoso; Laurence Carroll; Sue Cary; Luis Castillo; Arlene Chabanuk; Philippe Chauveau; Jiang-Hua Chen; Kathleen Claes; Peter Clausen; Jean Colaneri; Mario Cozzolino; Andrew Crannage; Michael Cunningham; Jane S Davis; Kimberly Davis; Rodrigo Daza; Julián Segura de la Morena; Luca De Nicola; Rodrigo Bueno de Oliveira; Rogerio Baumgratz de Paula; Goffredo Del Rosso; David DeMicco; Sheila Deziel; Bruno Didier; Guillermo J Rosa Diez; Ian Dittmer; Walter Guillermo Douthat; Reham Eid Elsayed; Montserrat Mercedes Díaz Encarnación; Tracy Evans-Walker; Joyce Ezaki-Yamaguchi; Jarraya Faical; Bonita Falkner; Sandro Feriozzi; Manuel Ferreira; Charles Ferro; Joseph T Flynn; Patricia Folk; Lui G Forni; Costas Fourtounas; Roberto Jorge da Silva Franco; Ping Fu; Naohiko Fujii; Susan L Furth; Suzanne Gagne; Sishir Gang; Colin C Geddes; Rozina Ghazalli; Karla Giles; Rodney Gilkey; Cheryl Gilmartin; Matthias Girndt; Richard J Glassock; Carlo Francisco S Gochuico; Eliezer Golan; David J Goldsmith; Fatima Ramirez Gonzalez; Suzanne Gore; Sílvia Gràcia-Garcia; Martin Haas; Lisa Hall; Karen Hamacher; Kathy Schiro Harvey; Niwrutti Hase; Domingo Hernandez; Elisabeth M Hodson; Ronald J Hogg; Hallvard Holdaas; Michael F Holick; Noriyuki Homma; Lai Seong Hooi; Mark Houser; Christian Hugo; Salwa Ibrahim; Enyu Imai; Jula Inrig; Sanjay Jain; Matthew James; Alan G Jardine; Andrzej Jaroszynski; Simon Jenkins; Chandra Mauli Jha; Kazibek Joldoshov; Graham Jones; Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh; Nada Kanaan; Gülçin Kantarci; Frederick J Kaskel; Cecelia Kasnick; Hasan Kayabasi; James S Kennedy; Johannes Kessel; Bryce A Kiberd; Vera Koch; Daisuke Koya; Peter Krisper; Batya Kristal; Stefan Krivoshiev; Dirk R J Kuypers; Francisco Lacordelle; Craig B Langman; Roberta Lattes; Rakesh Lattupalli; Keith Lau; Edgar V Lerma; Visnja Lezaic; Hao Li; Yuan Liang; Robert Liebl; Jimmy A Light; Petrica Ligia; Tuta Liliana; Annabelle Sy Lim; Jelka Lindic; Zhangsuo Liu; Attilio Losito; Richard Lund; Kelvin Lynn; Linlin Ma; Janette Mansour; Abeera Mansur; Judith Marin; Alberto Martinez-Castelao; Ken Massey; Timothy Mathew; Michael Mauer; Sandro Mazzaferro; Peter A McCullough; Amanda Medland; Gong Mengchun; Enisa Mesic; Sergio A Mezzano; Marius Miglinas; Tanuja Mishra; Takehiko Miyaji; Rosario Montañés-Bermúdez; Assad Monzer; José M Morales; Eugen Mota; Ricardo Mouzo; Cesar Loza Munarriz; Mohsen Nafar; Judit Nagy; Ramesh Naik; Takahiro Nakayama; Lavinia Negrea; Armando Luis Negri; Robert G Nelson; Marcus Vinícius de Pádua Netto; Alicia M Neu; Eezsafryna Azalin Nordin; Maurizio Nordio; Diego Novo; Thomas Oates; Yun Kyu Oh; Raymond Oliva; Patricia de Sequera Ortiz; Messaoud Ouziala; Antonino Paglialunga; Sonia Pasquali; Ioan Mihai Patiu; Saime Paydas; Glenda Payne; Erling Bjerregaard Pedersen; Adriana Peñalba; Graciela Pennacchiotti; Harry Brian Peppiatt; Gerson Marques Pereira Junior; Virginia Pernas; Todd E Pesavento; Frida Liane Plavnik; Claudio Ponticelli; Roberto Pontremoli; Amilee Poucher; Kearkiat Praditpornsilpa; Anastasia Ptinopoulou; Wajeh Qunibi; Rashida Rahman; Venkataraman Ramanathan; Roberto Ramirez; Harun ur Rashid; Hugh Rayner; Leonardo Marin Restrepo; Enrique Andrés Ribes; Peter Ricci; Troels Ring; A Adibul Rizvi; Nicolas Roberto Robles; Karen Rochelle; Hector J Rodriguez; Sara Rotaru; Jacques Rottembourg; Luis M Ruilope; Domenico Russo; Karen E Ryals; Jordi Bover Sanjuan; Francisco Santa-Cruz; Rafael Santamaria; Bento C Santos; Sergio Santos; Kenneth R Say; Sharon Schatz; Francesco Paolo Schena; Adalbert Schiller; Bernhard Schmekal; Rebecca Schmidt; Ammar Serawan; Mehmet Sever; Deepak Sharma; Robert Shay; Mitesh B Sheth; Alexander Shutov; Aleksandar Sikole; Fernando Simal; Dhavee Sirivongs; Itzchak Slotki; Yves Smets; Kimberly Smith; Laura Sola; Yalcin Solak; David Spiegel; Maria Stasios; Pavai Sthaneshwar; Gere Sunder-Plassmann; Charles Swanepoel; Mihály Tapolyai; Natalia Tomilina; Rezan Topaloglu; Robert D Toto; Giorgio Triolo; Kriang Tungsanga; Katherine R Tuttle; Anitha Vijayan; Rowan Walker; Marc R Weber; Clare Weekes; Talia Weinstein; Matthew R Weir; Kerstin Westman; Jack F Wetzels; Sara Wolfson; Mai-Szu Wu; Yanhua Wu; Li Xuemei; Jerry Yee; Elena Zakharova; Kostyantyn Zakon; Weiming Zhang; Carmine Zoccali; Alessandro Zuccalà.
Participation in the review does not necessarily constitute endorsement of the content of this report by the above individuals, or the organization or institution they represent.
Adeera Levin, MD, FRCPC, Work Group Co-Chair
Paul E Stevens, MB, FRCP, Work Group Co-Chair