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Dialysis for Chronic Kidney Failure
JAMAImportance More than 3.5 million people worldwide and 540 000 individuals in the US receive maintenance hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis for the treatment of chronic kidney failure. The 5-year survival rate is approximately 40% after initiation of maintenance dialysis.
Jennifer E, Flythe, Suzanne, Watnick
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The Artificial Kidney in Chronic Renal Failure
Postgraduate Medicine, 1962Hemodialysis has proved valuable in improving and stabilizing patients in terminal chronic uremia.In this analysis of 71 patients in whom hemodialysis was used, the diagnosis and therapeutic response were definitely correlated. The highest percentage of favorable responses was obtained in cases of polycystic renal disease; none of the patients with ...
J L, ROSENBAUM, S, NAKAMOTO, W J, KOLFF
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Acute-on-chronic liver failure: the kidneys
Current Opinion in Critical Care, 2011Acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) is defined as an abrupt deterioration of liver function in patients with established liver disease. Kidney function is almost universally altered in patients with ACLF due to underlying circulatory abnormalities.
Andrés, Cárdenas, Pere, Ginès
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Chronic Kidney Failure and Dialysis
DeckerMed Transitional Year Weekly Curriculum™, 2017Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a clinical syndrome arising from progressive kidney injury, formerly known as chronic renal failure, chronic renal disease, and chronic renal insufficiency. It is classified into five stages based primarily on glomerular filtration rate (GFR).
Jonathan Himmelfarb, Raghu V Durvasula
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[Chronic kidney failure in the elderly].
La Revue du praticien, 1992Ageing does not spare the kidneys but, remarkably, renal impairment is virtually asymptomatic as homaeostasis remains ensured. Nevertheless, in routine practice physicians must take into account the "physiological" renal insufficiency of the elderly.
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