Kidney Disease: Biomarkers, Diagnosis, and Prognosis: 3rd Edition

Dear Colleagues,

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) and end-stage renal disease (ESRD) are a worldwide public health problem, with ;increasing incidence and prevalence, high costs and poor outcomes. To overcome this problem, it is indispensable for us to explore or establish early detection methods/techniques and better treatment options for various kidney diseases such as primary/secondary glomerulonephritis, rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis, nephrotic syndrome, acute kidney injury, diabetic nephropathy/diabetic kidney disease, chronic renal failure, renal fibrosis and polycystic kidney disease.

Biochemical parameters such as serum creatinine and blood urea nitrogen levels and/or urinalysis are generally used for the early detection of kidney diseases. Kidney biopsy samples enable us to perform a histological diagnosis of kidney diseases. However, serum/urinary biomarkers, techniques and approaches for the early diagnosis of kidney diseases, the evaluation of kidney disease activity and renal prognosis are still lacking.

This Special Issue offers an open-access forum that aims to bring together a collection of original research and review articles addressing novel biomarkers, techniques and approaches that will be valuable and helpful for the diagnosis or analysis of kidney diseases, assessment of kidney disease activity, and renal prognosis.

We hope that this Special Issue will help us in the diagnosis, evaluation and treatment of kidney diseases in the clinical setting, and will provide essential and insightful clues to further our understanding of the development and progression of kidney diseases.

Prof. Dr. Akito Maeshima
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Diagnostics is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• primary/secondary glomerulonephritis
• rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis
• nephrotic syndrome
• acute kidney injury
• chronic kidney disease
• diabetic nephropathy/diabetic kidney disease
• chronic renal failure
• kidney transplantation
• renal fibrosis
• polycystic kidney