Hemodialysis treatment in patients with Balkan endemic nephropathy: An epidemiological study

Renal Failure

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 805-810

  Cukuranovic, Rade ^a   Jovanovic, Ivan ^a   Miljkovic, Sladjana ^b   Stefanovic, Natalija ^a   Vlajkovic, Slobodan ^a   Prokopovic, Miomir ^b   Stefanovic, Vladisav ^a  

^a Faculty of Medicine   (Serbia)

^b Medical Health Center   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Balkan endemic nephropathy; Hemodialysis; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CHRONIC PYELONEPHRITIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONGENITAL HYPOTHYROIDISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GENDER; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; HEMODIALYSIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LOG RANK TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL RATE; YUGOSLAVIA;

AGED; BALKAN NEPHROPATHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RENAL DIALYSIS; SEX FACTORS; YUGOSLAVIA;

EID: 36249028795     PISSN: 0886022X     EISSN: 15256049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08860220701573475     Document Type: Article

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