KIDNEY INTERNATIONAL

《肾脏国际》(KI)正在经历令人兴奋的变化，将在2006年第一期看到。新的KI提供了对读者和作者都有重要好处的特性。在这里你会发现一些在肾病学中被引用最多的原创文章，尖锐的焦点评论，最新的成像技术，有争议的讨论等等。重新设计的期刊每年将发行频率提高到24期，新的编辑团队ISN和NPG将为读者提供最好的肾脏学知识。肾脏国际致力于肾脏研究。旨在向肾脏研究者和实践肾脏病学家提供肾脏研究的各个方面的信息。这些研究包括：关于肾脏医学新发展的最新临床研究；临床和基础肾脏研究的最高水平的原始研究；在每个问题上，这些条款中的一些条款将通过评注加以强调，目的是将这些研究置于适当的背景下。这些将成为临床和基础研究者的研究工具；突出国际肾病学中重要问题的社论；肾病学研究的前沿----偶尔发表的简短文章，讨论世界各地肾学家关心的地方问题；但我们认为需要让全世界的肾病学家了解这些问题；对热点话题的微观评论和对肾脏研究中主要问题的深入评论；关于肾脏治疗或诊断的有争议的讨论，由两个对立的权威撰写；最先进的教材，包括肾脏会诊和临床病理会议，著名的临床医生在这些会议上讨论由多种病理、影像研究和图表显示的困难或有趣的病例；肾脏医学图像，这些图像是肾脏病理学中有趣图像的展示；选择放射学是因为其说明性或仅仅是为了其审美品质；对国际肾脏界具有重要意义的问题，包括筹资政治；器官移植、透析的充分性、全世界对终末期肾脏护理的可负担性和许多其他专题问题；期刊俱乐部是为您带来最新研究重点的概要，从广泛的期刊领域与肾脏研究有关。

Kidney International (KI) is undergoing exciting changes to be seen in the first 2006 issue. The new KI offers features with premier benefits for both readers and authors. Here you will find some of the most cited original articles in nephrology, sharply focused reviews, latest imaging techniques, controversial discussions and much more. The redesigned journal increases its frequency to 24 issues per year, and together, the new Editorial team, ISN, and NPG will offer readers the very best of nephrology. Kidney International devotes itself to renal research. It aims to inform the renal researcher and the practicing nephrologist on all aspects of renal research. These include: The latest clinical studies on emerging developments in renal medicine; The highest level of original research studies in clinical and basic renal research; In each issue some of these articles will be highlighted by commentaries that aim to put these studies in the appropriate context. These will form a research tool for clinical and basic investigators; Editorials that highlight important issues in international nephrology; Nephrology sans Frontieres - occasional short articles that discuss matters of local interest to nephrologists around the world, but which we feel need to be known by nephrologists world-wide; Minireviews on hot topics and in depth reviews about major issues in renal research; Controversial discussions on renal therapeutics or diagnosis written by two opposing authorities; State-of-the-Art teaching materials including The Renal Consults and clinico-pathological conferences where eminent clinicians discuss difficult or interesting cases illustrated by multiple pathology, imaging studies and charts; Nephrology Images which are presentations of interesting images in renal pathology, radiology chosen for their illustrative nature or simply for their esthetic qualities; Issues of importance to the international renal community including the politics of funding; of organ transplantation, of adequacy of dialysis, of world-wide affordability of end stage renal care and many other topical issues; Journal Club are synopses that bring you the latest research highlights from across a wide spectrum of journals in fields relevant to renal research.