Conservatively managed patients with stage 5 chronic kidney disease - Outcomes from a single center experience

QJM: An International Journal of Medicine

Volumn 102, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 547-554

  Ellam, T ^a   El Kossi, M ^a   Prasanth, K C ^a   El Nahas, M ^a   Khwaja, A ^a  

^a NORTHERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; CALCIUM; HEMOGLOBIN; PARATHYROID HORMONE;

AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; KIDNEY FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHROLOGIST; PARATHYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; PHOSPHATE BLOOD LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENOVASCULAR DISEASE; RENOVASCULAR HYPERTENSION; SURVIVAL TIME;

EID: 67949112685     PISSN: 14602725     EISSN: 14602393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/qjmed/hcp068     Document Type: Article

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