Temporal evolution of clinical parameters before death in dialysis patients: A new concept

Blood Purification

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 38-47

  Kotanko, Peter ^a,b   Thijssen, Stephan ^a,b   Usvyat, Len ^a   Tashman, Adam ^a,c   Kruse, Anja ^a,b   Huber, Christoph ^a,d   Levin, Nathan W ^a  

^a RENAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cause of death; Hemodialysis; Postdialytic body weight; Serum albumin

Indexed keywords

SERUM ALBUMIN;

ADULT; AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY WEIGHT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEATH; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GENDER; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; DEATH; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SERUM ALBUMIN; TIME FACTORS; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 58849155524     PISSN: 02535068     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000167007     Document Type: Conference Paper

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