Dialysis Patients After Kidney Graft Failure: Slovenian Experience

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 240-244

  Gubenšek, Jakob ^a   Arnol, Miha ^a   Ponikvar, Rafael ^a   Kovač, Janko ^a   Premru, Vladimir ^a   Kandus, Aljoša ^a   Bren, Andrej ^a   Buturović Ponikvar, Jadranka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Hemodialysis; Kidney graft failure; Survival; Vascular access

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY GRAFT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MORTALITY; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR ACCESS;

ADULT; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGISTRIES; RENAL DIALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SLOVENIA; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79957699910     PISSN: 17449979     EISSN: 17449987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-9987.2011.00944.x     Document Type: Article

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