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Renal dialysis may be used as treatment for [[acute kidney injury]] and [[chronic kidney disease]]. | Renal dialysis may be used as treatment for [[acute kidney injury]] and [[chronic kidney disease]]. | ||
The role of dialysis in nursing home residents is not clear.<ref name="pmid19828531">{{cite journal| author=Kurella Tamura M, Covinsky KE, Chertow GM, Yaffe K, Landefeld CS, McCulloch CE| title=Functional Status of Elderly Adults before and after Initiation of Dialysis. | journal=N Engl J Med | year= 2009 | volume= 361 | issue= 16 | pages= 1539-47 | pmid=19828531 | |||
| url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=19828531 | doi=10.1056/NEJMoa0904655 }} <!--Formatted by http://sumsearch.uthscsa.edu/cite/--></ref> | |||
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Revision as of 12:27, 19 October 2009
In medicine, renal dialysis is "therapy for the insufficient cleansing of the blood by the kidneys based on dialysis and including hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, and hemodiafiltration."[1]
Renal dialysis may be used as treatment for acute kidney injury and chronic kidney disease.
The role of dialysis in nursing home residents is not clear.[2]
References
- ↑ Anonymous (2024), Renal dialysis (English). Medical Subject Headings. U.S. National Library of Medicine.
- ↑ Kurella Tamura M, Covinsky KE, Chertow GM, Yaffe K, Landefeld CS, McCulloch CE (2009). "Functional Status of Elderly Adults before and after Initiation of Dialysis.". N Engl J Med 361 (16): 1539-47. DOI:10.1056/NEJMoa0904655. PMID 19828531. Research Blogging.