Thirty-seven uninterrupted years of hemodialysis: A case report

MedGenMed Medscape General Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Rifkin, Stephen I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTHROPLASTY; ARTICLE; CARDIOVERSION; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; DEATH; FALLING; FEMALE; FEMUR FRACTURE; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEMODIALYSIS; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINE RESECTION; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LONGEVITY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NEPHRECTOMY; OSTEODYSTROPHY; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT REFUSAL; VASCULAR ACCESS; ADOLESCENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MIDDLE AGED; RENAL DIALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 54349091086     PISSN: 15310132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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