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ERA-EDTA—a dynamic association moving forward
Professor of Medicine, ERA-EDTA President (2005–2008) Bone and Mineral Research Unit, Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, Oviedo 33006, Spain
Correspondence and offprint requests to: Jorge B. Cannata-Andía, Bone and Mineral Research Unit, Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, Julián Clavería S/N, Oviedo 33006, Spain.
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The ERA-EDTA was founded as EDTA in 1964. This occurred 14 years after the first renal transplants were performed in Paris and Boston, and 4 years after dialysis had embarked on its path towards becoming the current long-term replacement therapy for end-stage chronic kidney disease. The first meeting of the Association was held in Amsterdam and it gathered 210 delegates coming from 16 different countries, the first volume of the EDTA Proceedings being published the same year. During the following 4 years, the Congress and the Proceedings were the main activities of the Association, until the EDTA Registry was founded in Dublin in June 1968.
After this successful beginning, the Association continued its growth and expansion. In 1985 the Nephrology Dialysis and Transplantation journal (NDT) replaced the EDTA Proceedings and in 1995 the present name "European Renal Association-European Dialysis and Transplant Association" (ERA-EDTA) was adopted. All