Acute kidney injury in low-income and middle-income countries: No longer a death sentence

The Lancet Global Health

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2016, Pages e216-e217

  Perico, Norberto ^a   Remuzzi, Giuseppe ^a,b,c  

^a MARIO NEGRI INSTITUTE FOR PHARMACOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Italy)

^b PAPA GIOVANNI XXIII HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ASIA; DIALYSIS; DIARRHEA; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ENVENOMATION; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MORTALITY RATE; NOTE; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; INCOME; POVERTY;

ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HUMANS; INCOME; POVERTY;

EID: 84962586057     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2214109X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(16)00065-6     Document Type: Note

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