Serum albumin: Its significance in patients with ESRD

Seminars in Dialysis

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 404-408

  Steinman, Theodore I ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; SERUM ALBUMIN;

ARTICLE; BLOOD; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PROTEIN CALORIE MALNUTRITION; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PROTEIN-ENERGY MALNUTRITION; RENAL DIALYSIS; SERUM ALBUMIN;

EID: 0034322181     PISSN: 08940959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-139x.2000.00110.x     Document Type: Article

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