Sterile peritonitis due to icodextrin: Experience from a Canadian center [3]

Peritoneal Dialysis International

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 88-89

  Poulopoulos, V ^a   Lam, L ^a   Cugelman, A ^a  

^a Orillia Soldiers' Memorial Hospital   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFTAZIDIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; ICODEXTRIN;

ABDOMINAL DISEASE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CANADA; CELL COUNT; CHEMICAL REACTION; DEVICE REMOVAL; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; DRUG IMPURITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EXPERIENCE; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A NEPHROPATHY; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; LETTER; NEPHROSCLEROSIS; PERITONEAL CATHETER; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PERITONITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN DISEASE; TREATMENT FAILURE; ULTRAFILTRATION;

EID: 3042852761     PISSN: 08968608     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/089686080402400117     Document Type: Letter

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