Nephrology and renal replacement therapy in Romania - Transition still continues (Cinderella story revisited)

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2971-2980

  Mircescu, Gabriel ^a,b   Capşa, Dimitrie ^b   Covic, Maria ^b   Cǎprioarǎ, Mirela Gherman ^b   Gluhovschi, Gheorghe ^b   Golea, Ovidiu ^b   Ursea, Nicolae ^a   Gârneaţǎ, Liliana ^a   Cepoi, Vasile ^b   Constantinovici, Nicolae ^a   Covic, Adrian ^b,c  

^a CAROL DAVILA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

^b GRIGORE T POPA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

^c C I PARHON NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENDOCRINOLOGY   (Romania)

Author keywords

CAPD; HD; Registry; Renal replacement therapy; Survival; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROPOIETIN;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONTINUOUS AMBULATORY PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEMODIALYSIS; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NEPHROLOGY; NEPHROSCLEROSIS; PATIENT MONITORING; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; ROMANIA; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 19944427713     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfh501     Document Type: Article

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