A hopeless case?

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1253-1256

  Woywodt, Alexander ^a   Schneider, Gabriele ^a   Haller, Herrmann ^a   Hiss, Marcus ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Congestive heart failure; Ethics; Octogenarian; Peritoneal dialysis; Renal failure

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; DIGOXIN; DIURETIC AGENT; METOPROLOL; OXYGEN; SPIRONOLACTONE; TORASEMIDE;

AGED; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CASE REPORT; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPOKALEMIA; KIDNEY FAILURE; LOW DRUG DOSE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ETHICS, MEDICAL; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 34047186381     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfl842     Document Type: Article

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