Continuous Mortality Risk Among Peritoneal Dialysis Patients
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Continuous mortality risk among peritoneal dialysis patients.
C onventional hemodialysis (CHD) administered thrice weekly for 3to 4-hour sessions and peritoneal dialysis (PD) are the 2 most commonly delivered dialysis modalities. Patients treated with CHD are subject to short periods of rapid fluid and solute removal accompanied by brisk electrolyte shifts followed by long intervals when these substances reaccumulate. In contrast, PD uses the patient’s pe...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Internal Medicine
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0003-9926
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2012.215