Bone histomorphometry for the diagnosis of renal osteodystrophy: a call for harmonization of reference ranges

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, Nephrology and Renal Transplantation Research Group, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium; Department of Kidney Diseases, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark.
• ² Department of Nephrology, Hospital Curry Cabral, Centro Hospitalar Universitário Lisboa Central, Lisbon, Portugal; Nova Medical School, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.
• ³ Laboratory of Pathophysiology, Department Biomedical Sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
• ⁴ Division of Renal Medicine and Baxter Novum, Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden; Diaverum Sweden AB, Malmö, Sweden.
• ⁵ Department of Nephrology, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
• ⁶ L'institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale (INSERM) 1059, Université de Lyon, Saint-Etienne, France; Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital of Saint-Étienne, Saint-Etienne, France.
• ⁷ Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, Nephrology and Renal Transplantation Research Group, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium; Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. Electronic address: Pieter.Evenepoel@uzleuven.be.