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Contemporary dialysis: as good as transplantation?

Authors :
J. Harold Helderman
Heidi M. Schaefer
Source :
Nature Reviews Nephrology. 6:8-9
Publication Year :
2010
Publisher :
Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2010.

Abstract

Kidney transplantation is well known to increase survival and improve quality of life over conventional dialysis therapies. But are contemporary, intensive dialysis therapies, such as nocturnal home hemodialysis, associated with outcomes as good as those obtained with deceased donor transplantation?

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Subjects :
medicine.medical_specialty
business.industry
Home hemodialysis
medicine.medical_treatment
medicine.disease
Deceased donor transplantation
Transplantation
Quality of life (healthcare)
Nephrology
Medicine
business
Intensive care medicine
Kidney transplantation
Dialysis

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ISSN :
1759507X and 17595061
Volume :
6
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Nature Reviews Nephrology
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........42180750367dd001c16fceaf142991fa

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