QUALIREHAB at the ESPN 2026 Annual Meeting in Bordeaux

At the 58th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Paediatric Nephrology (ESPN), held in Bordeaux, France, from September 30 to October 3, 2026, Dr. Oscar Werner, MD, PhD candidate within the QUALIREHAB research group, presented his work on exercise rehabilitation in pediatric chronic kidney disease (CKD) in a talk entitled "Exercise Rehabilitation in Pediatric Chronic Kidney Disease: From Assessment to Implementation".

This work builds directly on our recently published multicenter study in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (CJASN), "Early and Stage-Dependent Cardiopulmonary Fitness Impairment in Pediatric CKD", which showed early and stage-dependent impairment in cardiopulmonary fitness in children with CKD.

The accompanying CJASN editorial, "Impaired Cardiopulmonary Fitness in Youth with CKD: A Call for Intervention", highlights the need to move from assessment toward intervention.

From evidence to implementation: QUALIREHAB-KIDNEY is the next step in this heart–kidney research program. Congratulations to Oscar and to all the collaborators involved.