Sixty years of European Renal Association (ERA) Registry data on kidney disease: visualizing differences in clinical practice

Sixty years ago, in 1964, a European Registry was established with data on patients with kidney failure who were treated with kidney replacement therapy (KRT).An initial report was published in 1965 on 271 patients starting hemodialysis and 6 patients starting peritoneal dialysis with a 1-year mortality of 40%-50% [1 ].In addition,