Maintenance dialysis in patients from developing countries: The experience of an Italian center

Journal of Nephrology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 552-558

  Fogazzi, Giovanni B ^a   Castelnovo, Claudia ^a  

^a FONDAZIONE IRCCS CA GRANDA OSPEDALE MAGGIORE POLICLINICO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hemodialysis; Immigration; Peritoneal dialysis; Renal disease in developing countries; Renal replacement therapy; Renal transplant

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CHRONIC GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTINUOUS AMBULATORY PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; DIALYSIS; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EUROPE; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; INFECTION; ITALY; KIDNEY AMYLOIDOSIS; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; MALE; MAURITIUS; MEMBRANOPROLIFERATIVE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; MOROCCO; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHILIPPINES; RENOVASCULAR HYPERTENSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SRI LANKA; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADULT; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EGYPT; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMODIALYSIS UNITS, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; ITALY; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY FUNCTION TESTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOROCCO; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS, CONTINUOUS AMBULATORY; PHILIPPINES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 4644227717     PISSN: 11218428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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