Characteristics of dialysis-related amyloidosis in patients on haemodialysis therapy for more than 30 years

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1593-1598

  Otsubo, Shigeru ^a   Kimata, Naoki ^b   Okutsu, Ichiro ^c   Oshikawa, Kazunori ^a   Ueda, Syuitsu ^a   Sugimoto, Hisayuki ^a   Mitobe, Michihiro ^b   Uchida, Keiko ^b   Otsubo, Kimiko ^a   Nitta, Kosaku ^b   Akiba, Takashi ^b  

^a Sangenjaya Hospital   (Japan)

^b TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Okutsu Minimally Invasive Orthopaedic Clinic   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amyloidosis; Carpal tunnel syndrome; Destructive spondyloarthropathy; High flux membrane; Long term haemodialysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMYLOIDOSIS; ARTICLE; CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; CERVICAL DESTRUCTIVE SPONDYLOARTHROPATHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMODIALYSIS RELATED AMYLOIDOSIS; HUMAN; JAPAN; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPONDYLOARTHROPATHY; SURVIVAL TIME; TRIGGER FINGER;

AGED; AMYLOIDOSIS; CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RENAL DIALYSIS; SPONDYLARTHROPATHIES; TRIGGER FINGER DISORDER;

EID: 65249105426     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfn706     Document Type: Article

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