Adrian Covic, MD, PhD Full Professor of Nephrology Dialysis and Renal Transplantation Unit “C. I. Parhon” University Hospital Iasi, Romania Mehmet Kanbay, MD Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Kayseri Training and Research Hospital, Melikgazi, Kayseri, Turkey EDGAR V. LERMA, MD, FACP, FASN, FAHA, FASH, FNLA, FNKF Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine Section of Nephrology Department of Medicine University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine/ Associates in Nephrology, S.C. Chicago, IL