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Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic influenced the conduct of ISN WCN over past three years. ISN WCN 2019 was live conference, ISN WCN 2020 was cancelled due to pandemic, ISN WCN 2021 was a fully virtual conference while ISN WCN 2022 was conducted in hybrid form. This pandemic has impacted conference demographics. We evaluated the impact of this transition from live to virtual and hybrid forms on social media coverage. Method(s): We compared social media coverage data of ISN WCN 2019, 2021 and 2022. All three congresses were covered on various platforms by @ISNeducation SoMe Team, an integral component of the ISN Education Working Group. The group provides comprehensive coverage of congress lectures and presentations since 2017. The coverage data from twitter was compared and evaluated. Result(s): Lesser number of sessions were held in virtual (86) and hybrid (97) conference compared from live congress (158). Likewise, twitter users decreased in virtual (857) and hybrid forms (886) of congress compared from live form (1943). Though the number of tweets decreased from live to virtual (17,507 vs 13,300), number of impressions (25 million vs 27 million) increased. Both number of tweets and impressions increased further in hybrid conference (15,100;46.6 million) indicating the robust social media engagement. Thirty-nine percent sessions (62/158) were live tweeted in live conference while 85% (73/86) and 69% (67/97) sessions were live tweeted in virtual and hybrid forms. Number of visual abstracts were higher (59) in 2022 compared from 2019 (30) and 2021 (29). In WCN 2022, social media team introduced Twitter Space where live audio discussions were held during four congress days. [Formula presented] [Formula presented] [Formula presented] Conclusion(s): Social media engagement of participants of ISN World Congress of Nephrology has increased in each conference over years and it was highest in hybrid form of congress. Number of sessions and users were higher in live form but engagement and percentage of live tweeted sessions were higher in virtual and hybrid forms of congress. No conflict of interestCopyright © 2023
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BACKGROUND: This study aimed to investigate pregnancy frequency and evaluate the factors affecting live births in hemodialysis (HD) patients. METHODS: Female HD patients whose pregnancy was retrospectively reported between January 1, 2014, and December 31, 2019. The duration of HD, primary disease, and the information on whether the pregnancy resulted in abortion, stillbirth, or live birth, whether the HD duration was prolonged after diagnosing the pregnancy and whether it accompanied preeclampsia were recorded. RESULTS: In this study, we reached 9038 HD female patients' data in the study. A total of 235 pregnancies were detected in 145 patients. The mean age was 35.42 (35 ± 7.4) years. The mean age at first gestation was 30.8 ± 6.5 years. The average birth week was 32 (28 -36) weeks. A total of 53.8% (no = 78) of the patients had live birth, 51.7% (no = 70) had at least one abortion in the first 20 weeks, and 13.1% (no = 19) had at least one stillbirth after 20 weeks. The rate of patients' increased numbers of dialysis sessions during pregnancy was 71.7%. The abortion rate was 22.4% in those with increased HD sessions, whereas 79.3% in those not increased HD sessions (p < 0.001). Live birth frequency was 67.2% in the increased HD sessions group and 3.4% in those who did not differ in HD sessions (p < 0.001). DISCUSSION: For the first time, we reported pregnancy outcomes in HD female patients, covering all regions of Turkey. It has been observed that;increasing the number of HD sessions in dialysis patients will decrease fetal and maternal complications and increase live birth rates.
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Objectives: There is limited data about coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) characteristics and results in peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients. This study aimed to investigate the characteristics and outcomes among PD patients and compare them with matched hemodialysis (HD) patients and a control group without kidney disease. Methods: We included 18 PD patients and consecutive age- and gender-matched 18 HD and 18 patients without kidney disease (control group) registered into the Turkish Society of Nephrology database including 1301 COVID-19 patients. We compared demographic, clinical, radiological, laboratory data, and outcomes namely intensive care unit (ICU) admission, mechanical ventilation, mortality, and composite outcome (death and/or ICU admission). Results: ICU admission, mechanical ventilation, and mortality rates in PD patients (27.8%, 22.2%, and 22.2%, respectively) and the HD group (16.7%, 11.1%, and 16.7%, respectively) were higher than the control group (11.1%, 11.1%, and 5.6%, respectively), but intergroup comparison did not reveal difference. A total of 11 (20.3%) patients had composite outcome (6 PD patients, 3 HD patients, and 2 patients in the control group). In Cox regression analysis, higher age and higher CRP level were related to increased risk of composite outcome. Adjusted rate of composite outcome in PD group was significantly higher than the control group (P =.050). This rate was similar in HD and control groups (P =.30). Conclusions: Combined in-hospital mortality and/or ICU admission of PD patients with COVID-19 was significantly higher than the control patients. There is a need for careful surveillance of PD patients for infection signs and prompt treatment of COVID-19.
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Introduction: The appearance of the COVID -19 pandemic in the early months of 2020 has changed the way education is delivered, by drastically reducing face to face interaction. In the light of the current situation, professional bodies have ramped up virtual modes of education in the form of webinars, quizzes and various gamifications of learning formats. @ISN Education and its social media team has been in the forefront in presenting and propagating educational initiatives using social media and interacting with ISN Education Working Group and the Academy platform since early 2020. In this study we look at the changing dynamics of online nephrology education in 2020, focussing on @ISN Education Webinars and Quizzes. Methods: The study looks at the participation, attendance, interest rating and attentiveness of the webinars (and the linked social media activities) conducted by the @ISN Education in 2020.The data regarding the webinars conducted by the ISN Education group from May 2019 till November 2020 was collected and analysed for the number of registrations, attendance, attentiveness and interest rating. The data collected was compared between two time points (May 2019 to December 2019 vs January 2020 to November 2020) to better understand the impact of the pandemic on virtual educational initiatives. Data generated from social media activities (Twitter, Facebook, YouTube) and quizzes linked to these webinars in 2020 was analysed.Statistical Analysis was done using SPSS Version 22. Results: There were 7 webinars in 2019 and 11 in 2020 till November 2020. The total number of registrations in 2020 was higher than in 2019 (4729 vs 1299:p=0.079). Similarly, the number of attendees in 2020 was higher than in 2019 (2146 vs 465;p=0.084). This was expected as there were more webinars in 2020 (11) than in 2019 (7). The mean (±sd) registrations and attendees in 2020 were still higher than in 2019. (registrations 429.91 ±40.269 in 2020 vs. 185.57 ±96.609 in 2019, p=0.08 and attendees 195.09 ±180.65 in 2020 vs 66.43±36.65 in 2019,p=0.08). The percentage of registrants who actually attended the webinars in 2019 (35.8%) was significantly lower than in 2020 (45.4%)(p=0.01). In 2020 the percentage of attendance was higher in April-June (48%), July -September (49.1%) than in the Jan -March (41.7%). The Spanish language webinars had a lesser attendance perhaps a result of the time at which the webinars were conducted (morning hours in Latin America) All webinars were promoted and introduced on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. 3 webinars were introduced in Instagram also.Twitter was the most commonly used media tool for promotion of the webinars(78.5%) and Instagram was least preferred(6%). The webinar titled “COVID19 for the Nephrologist- Real life experience from Italy” was the most popular webinar with 2940 engagements and 41978 impressions on Twitter and had the highest quiz engagement. Conclusions: The webinars conducted by @ISN Education had a higher level of meaningful participation (registration and attendance) during the COVID 19 pandemic. A robust social media interaction in relation to the webinars was noted and demonstrated to be a useful tool to propagate the educational content. A quiz linked to the webinars also garnered interest and had encouraging participation statistics. No conflict of interest