Will nephrologists use a wearable artificial kidney?

Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1401-1402

  Friedman, Eli A ^a  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT; ARTIFICIAL KIDNEY; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIALYSATE; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE COST; HEMODIAFILTRATION; HEMODIALYSIS; HEPATORENAL SYNDROME; HOME CARE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LONG TERM CARE; NEPHROLOGIST; NONHUMAN; OSMOLALITY; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PH; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; SELF CARE; SURVIVOR; UREMIA; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

AMMONIA; BETA 2-MICROGLOBULIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CREATININE; DIALYSIS SOLUTIONS; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEMODIAFILTRATION; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY, ARTIFICIAL; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; PRESSURE; PULSATILE FLOW; TIME FACTORS; UREMIA;

EID: 73249131039     PISSN: 15559041     EISSN: 1555905X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2215/CJN.04600709     Document Type: Editorial

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