Thirty-Five Years of Hemodialysis: Two Case Reports as a Tribute to Nils Alwall

American Journal of Kidney Diseases

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 471-476

  Kurkus, Jan ^a   Nykvist, Marie ^b   Lindergård, Birger ^a   Segelmark, Mårten ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b Malmö University Hospital   (Sweden)

Author keywords

hemodialysis; Long term; survival

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; CUPROPHANE; CYCLOSPORIN; ERYTHROPOIETIN; METHOTREXATE; MORPHINE DERIVATIVE; POLYAMIDE; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; AGED; ALPORT SYNDROME; AMYLOIDOSIS; ANEMIA; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; ARTHRALGIA; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC PYELONEPHRITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; JOINT DESTRUCTION; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; SURVIVAL TIME; SYMPTOM;

AGED; FEMALE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHRITIS, HEREDITARY; PYELONEPHRITIS; RENAL DIALYSIS; SWEDEN;

EID: 33847251581     PISSN: 02726386     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2007.01.022     Document Type: Article

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