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: Ethan Balk, Ashish Upadhyay, 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. 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:
Omar Abboud; Hugo Abensur; Patrícia Ferreira Abreu; Matias Abuchanab; Azreen Syazril Adnan; Tekin Akpolat; Mona Al Rukhaimi; Bulent Altun; Abdullah M Al-Zahrani; Pablo Amair; Sukgasem Amornsuntorn; Ramnath Andhale; Andrea Angioi; Hans-Juergen Arens; Mustafa Arici; Mariano Arriola; Ferruh Artunc; Suheir Assady; Meredith Atkinson; Peter Barany; Antoine Barbari; Rashad Barsoum; Don Batisky; Josef Bautista; Thomas Bernhardt; Patrick Biggar; Celeste Boucher; Philippe Brunet; Frederic Calaud; Rafael Burgos Calderon; Bernard Canaud; Katie Cardone; Raul Carlini; Fernando Carrera; Sue Cary; Arlene Chabanuk; Jiang-Hua Chen; Massimo Cirillo; Marie Cole; Maura Conti; Rosanna Coppo; Adrian Covic; Daniel W Coyne; Andrew J Crannage; Ana Maria Cusumano; Elec Alina Daciana; Mary Date; Jane S Davis; Kimberly Davis; Luca De Nicola; Rodrigo Bueno de Oliveira; Rogerio Baumgratz de Paula; Lucia Del Vecchio; Sebastien Delanerie; Montserrat Díaz-Encarnación; Valentin Ermolenko; Nancy Eschrich; Elizabeth Evans; Stephen Z Fadem; Sandro Feriozzi; Sebastião Rodrigues Ferreira-Filho; Jorgen Folkesen; Ricardo Fonseca; Jonathan G Fox; Susan L Furth; Jan Galle; Guillermo Garcia Garcia; Melissa Garza; Cheryl Gilmartin; Richard J Glassock; Elaine Go; Dr Gokulnath; Chandramohan Gundappa; Lara Haddock; Karen Hamacher; Jeff Harder; Brenda R Hemmelgarn; Koen Hens; Hideki Hirakata; Elisabeth M Hodson; Hallvard Holdaas; Cai Hong; Eero Honkanen; Lai Seong Hooi; Enyu Imai; Goran Imamović Dmytro Ivanov; Alan G Jardine; Andrzej Jaroszynski; Deepa Jayaram; Chandra Mauli Jha; Nada Kanaan; Gülçin Kantarcı Cecelia Kasnick; Jenna Kawamoto; Goh Heong Keong; Reshma Kewalramani; Vijay Kher; Arif Khwaja; Stefan Krivoshiev; Dirk Kuypers; Bruce Lange; Craig B Langman; Edgar V Lerma; Nathan W Levin; Rongshan Li; Sergio Liderman; Petrica Ligia; Chin Yao Lin; Jelka Lindic; Kirill Lipatov; Zhang-Suo Liu; Zhi-Hong Liu; Matthias Lorenz; Antonio Lupo; Eileen MacFarlane; Francesca Mallamaci; Alberto Martinez-Castelao; Pablo Massari; Amanda Medland; Marius Miglinas; Roberto Minutolo; Gabriel Mircescu; Kirtida Mistry; Gerardo Mogni; Walid Ahmed Abdel Atty Mohamed; Louise Moist; Sameh Morgan; Eugen Mota; César Loza Munarriz; Jessica Nagro; Judit Nagy; Oscar Naidas; Mooppil Nandakumar; Masaomi Nangaku; Alicia Neu; Jacqueline Nolen; Karim Nooruddin; John Okogbaa; Raymond V Oliva; Alberto Ortiz; Ingrid Os; Antonino Paglialunga; Thaweepong Pajareya; Sonia Pasquali; Saime Paydas; Breda Pečovnik Balon; Tammy Pennington; Frederik Persson; Fu Ping; Allan S Pollock; Krishna Polu; Rafael Ponikvar; Roberto Pontremoli; Kearkiat Praditpornsilpa; Rashida K Rahman; Norma Rhines; Peter Ricci; Troels Ring; Francisco Rivera; A Adibul Rizvi; Nicolas Roberto Robles; Michael V Rocco; Karen Rochelle; Cibele Rodrigues; Guillermo Rosa-Diez; Mai Ots Rosenberg; Jaroslav Rosenberger; Jacques Rottembourg; Irakli Rtskhiladze; Michael Rudnicki; Luis Ruilope; Romana Rysava; Heikki Saha; Tonya Sanders; J Santos; Bento Santos; Sergio Santos; Kenneth R Say; Sharon Schatz; Francesco Paolo Schena; Francesco Scolari; Jang Won Seo; Deepak Sharma; Mitesh B Sheth; Valeriy Shilo; Hassan Abdel-Wahed Shora; Justin Silver; Itzchak Slotki; Paul E Stevens; Claes Strom; Gere Sunder-Plassmann; Navdeep Tangri; Mihály Tapolyai; Peter Thomson; Natalia Tomilina; Giorgio Triolo; George Tsangalis; Dennis Tse; Yoshiharu Tsubakihara; Jeff Unger; Vinod Venkataraman; Alberto Vianello; Theodor Vogels; Rowan Walker; Jian-Xin Wan; Rong Wang; Bradley A Warady; Kristy Washinger; Talia Weinstein; Catherine Wells; Colin White; Yvonne Wilkens; Christopher G Winearls; Sara Wolfson; Viktoria Woronik; Mai-Szu Wu; Houqin Xiao; Wu Xiujuan; Li Yang; Ariel Young; Elena Zakharova; Ming-hui Zhao; Francisco Zornosa; Guimian Zou; Kim Zuber; Alessandro Zuccalà Mario Zúñiga; Li Zuo.
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.
John J V McMurray, MD, FRCP, FESC Patrick S Parfrey, MD, FRCPC, FRSC Work Group Co-Chairs