Level of renal function at the initiation of dialysis in the U.S. end- stage renal disease population

Kidney International

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 2227-2235

  Obrador, Gregorio T ^a,b   Arora, Pradeep ^a,b   Kausz, Annamaria T ^a,b   Ruthazer, Robin ^a,b   Pereira, Brian J G ^a,b   Levey, Andrew S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD PANAMERICANA   (Mexico)

^b TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic renal failure; Dialysis start; Glomerular filtration rate; Serum creatinine

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; CREATININE CLEARANCE; DIALYSIS; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 0033457876     PISSN: 00852538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1755.1999.00779.x     Document Type: Article

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