Eight year review of hemodialysis: Treated patients in a tertiary center in Southern Nigeria

Annals of African Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 221-225

  Okaka, Enajite I ^a   Unuigbe, Evelyn I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BENIN   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

8 year review; hemodialysis; male sex; younger age group

Indexed keywords

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NIGERIA; OBSTRUCTIVE UROPATHY; RENOVASCULAR HYPERTENSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; WORKER; AGE DISTRIBUTION; COMPLICATION; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; KIDNEY DISEASES; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; RISK FACTOR; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX RATIO; SOCIOECONOMICS;

HEMODIALYSIS FLUID;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; FEMALE; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HEMODIALYSIS SOLUTIONS; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NIGERIA; RENAL DIALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEPSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84908545016     PISSN: 15963519     EISSN: 09755764     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/1596-3519.142295     Document Type: Article

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