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Creation

The Latin American Registry of Dialysis and Renal Transplantation (RLDTR) of the Latin American Society of Nephrology and Hypertension - SLANH, began operations in 1991.

The SLANH Registration Committee is responsible for the organization and operation of the Register and reports directly to the Board of Directors of the Company. The Committee has, at the present time, a Director, an Executive Committee and responsible for each National Society member. RLDTR coordination was in Uruguay from its creation to the Latin American Congress of Nephrology held in Costa Rica, in 2000, after which he moved to Argentina.

Data collection is done officially, with the participation of the Steering Committees of the National Society of Nephrology SLANH grouped. The data for each country are provided directly by the Board of the Society of Nephrology or the Committee for National Register or National Officers appointed by the Companies.

Objectives

At the First Meeting of National Delegates Latin American Registry of Dialysis and Renal Transplantation, held in Montevideo in March 1994, defined the mission, objectives and goals of the registry.

It was established that the registry is intended to: understand the demographics of the population replacement therapy on renal function and the impact of treatment on the natural history of disease, establish and describe the evolution of the organizational aspects and treatment delivery in Latin America and promote excellence in the provision of care for patients with chronic renal failure.

To fulfill this mission, objectives and goals of the Registry are:

• Consolidate data system replacement therapy of chronic renal failure in Latin America;
  

• Promote the development of national registries, combining the structure and operation of the SLANH registration;

• Make a biostatistical analysis to characterize the population and describe the distribution of patients according to socio-demographic variables and treatment modalities;
  
  
• Report on the incidence, prevalence, morbidity and mortality, considering the variations according to the etiology, treatment modalities and other variables, to analyze the data with the aim of increasing life expectancy, reduce morbidity and improve quality of life of patients with chronic renal failure;
  
  
• Encourage research to take as a starting point registration;
  
  
• The results provide nephrologists, health managers and policy-making decisions and make a contribution to the region to the universal knowledge of prevention, the incidence and prognosis of the disease.

The "2nd Meeting of Delegates of the Latin American Registry of Dialysis and Renal Transplantation: From Head to the Second Decade", was held in Buenos Aires, 21 and November 22, 2002, in order to analyze the results obtained during the 10 consecutive years in which they had collected data on CKD Extreme Latin American registry, and set objectives and modifications for the following years.

It was concluded that to date, the Registry had been allowed to know about replacement therapy in our America, prevalence and incidence, overall and by country as well as alternative treatment modalities, types of transplants, the main causes of discharge, characteristics of schools dialysis, comparisons with other records, correlation with the country's gross domestic product and own tables for standardization of mortality and morbidity.

At the present time RLDTR has 16 years of uninterrupted data collection, which have been published and should be considered as the best approach based on the best, albeit limited data. Moreover, the record became a source of reference for all those who want information on the treatment of IRE in Latin America. Their results were published in the journal Latin American Nephrology, and other indexed in Medline.