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Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2006 21(7):2026; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl259
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© The Author [2006]. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of ERA-EDTA. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

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Email: bolo{at}amedec.amg.gda.pl

Sir,

In their letter, Viklicky et al. raised the important point of epidemiological data reliability. Unfortunately in Europe, the ‘old’ system, introduced by the EDTA Registry and based on individual patient data collection, failed in the late 90s of the last century. Nowadays, the ERA-EDTA Registry is rather a Federation of the National Renal Registries. It is obvious that individual patient data collection is more reliable, nevertheless, the vast majority of Registries from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) are still collecting data using centre questionnaires. Viklicky et al. also gathered data concerning dialysis treatment in the same way. This information is published annually, in small booklets entitled: ‘Annual Statistics of Dialysis Therapy in Czech Republic’ [1]. This data was analysed together with other information delivered by Prof. Vladimir Teplan, former President of the Czech Society of Nephrology and present Chief of the Czech National Kidney Foundation, as a member of the Advisory Board of Chronic Renal Failure in CEE. Other members of this Board were recruited from the top nephrology leaders in the CEE region. Their names were enlisted for several earlier common publications [2–5]. In these articles, good results for Czech transplantology were also shown and underlined. I do hope that, by taking into account all the information presented above, Viklicky et al. will find the data published in my article more reliable.

Conflict of interest statement. None declared.

B. Rutkowski

Department of Nephrology Transplantology and Internal Medicine Institute of Internal Medicine Medical University of Golansk Poland

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  1. Lachmanova J, on behalf of the Czech Nephrological Community. Annual Statistics of Dialysis Therapy in Czech Republic-2002. Janssen Cilag CR, Prague, 2003
  2. Rutkowski B, Ciocalteu A, Djukanovic L et al. Evolution of renal replacement therapy in Central and Eastern Europe 7 years after political and economical liberation. Nephrol Dial Transplant 1997; 12: 860–864
  3. Rutkowski B, Ciocalteu A, Djukanovic L et al. Treatment of end-stage renal disease in Central and Eastern Europe. Overview of current status and future needs. Artif Organs 1998; 22: 187–191[Medline]
  4. Rutkowski B, with Central and Eastern European Advisory Board in Chronic Renal Failure. Erythropoetin treatment in Central and Eastern Europe. Przegl Lek 1998; 55 [Suppl]: 147–154
  5. Rutkowski B. Changing pattern of end stage renal disease in Central and Eastern Europe. Nephrol Dial Transplant 2000; 15: 156–160[Abstract/Free Full Text]

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