Does Hemodialysis Hurt the Brain?

Seminars in Dialysis

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 266-268

  Madero, Magdalena ^a   Sarnak, Mark J ^b  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CARDIOLOGÍA IGNACIO CHÁVEZ   (Mexico)

^b TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR EMBOLISM; ATROPHY; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN EMBOLISM; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; COGNITION; EDITORIAL; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION ENCEPHALOPATHY; HYPOTENSION; PATHOLOGY; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY;

ATROPHY; BRAIN EDEMA; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; COGNITION; EMBOLISM, AIR; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSIVE ENCEPHALOPATHY; HYPOTENSION; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; RENAL DIALYSIS;

EID: 79959331086     PISSN: 08940959     EISSN: 1525139X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-139X.2011.00857.x     Document Type: Editorial

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