How to tackle the avalanche of chronic kidney disease in sub-Saharan Africa: The situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo as an example

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 332-335

  Krzesinski, Jean Marie ^a   Sumaili, Kiswaya Ernest ^b   Cohen, Eric ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KINSHASA   (Congo)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic kidney disease; Cost of renal replacement therapy; Democratic Republic Congo; Developing countries; Preventive medicine

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CONTINUOUS AMBULATORY PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO; DIALYSIS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE MANPOWER; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INDIVIDUALIZATION; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; POLITICS; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; RISK MANAGEMENT; SURVIVAL RATE;

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MASS SCREENING; MORBIDITY;

EID: 33846708606     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfl494     Document Type: Article

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