About the Authors

Usama Elewa

Affiliations IIS-Fundación Jiménez Díaz, School of Medicine, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Fundación Renal Iñigo Alvarez de Toledo-IRSIN, Madrid, Spain, REDINREN, Madrid, Spain, Kasr El-Aini University Hospitals, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

Beatriz Fernandez-Fernandez

Affiliations IIS-Fundación Jiménez Díaz, School of Medicine, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Fundación Renal Iñigo Alvarez de Toledo-IRSIN, Madrid, Spain, REDINREN, Madrid, Spain

Raquel Alegre

Affiliations IIS-Fundación Jiménez Díaz, School of Medicine, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Fundación Renal Iñigo Alvarez de Toledo-IRSIN, Madrid, Spain, REDINREN, Madrid, Spain

Maria D. Sanchez-Niño

Affiliation IDIPaz, Madrid, Spain

Ignacio Mahillo-Fernández

Affiliation IIS-Fundación Jiménez Díaz, School of Medicine, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Maria Vanessa Perez-Gomez

Affiliations IIS-Fundación Jiménez Díaz, School of Medicine, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Fundación Renal Iñigo Alvarez de Toledo-IRSIN, Madrid, Spain, REDINREN, Madrid, Spain

Hussein El-Fishawy

Affiliation Kasr El-Aini University Hospitals, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

Dawlat Belal

Affiliation Kasr El-Aini University Hospitals, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

Alberto Ortiz

aortiz@fjd.es

Affiliations IIS-Fundación Jiménez Díaz, School of Medicine, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Fundación Renal Iñigo Alvarez de Toledo-IRSIN, Madrid, Spain, REDINREN, Madrid, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: UE HE DB AO. Performed the experiments: UE BF RA MVPG AO. Analyzed the data: UE IM AO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: UE MS AO. Wrote the paper: UE AO.