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  1. Although most patients are suitable for both hemodialysis (HD) and peritoneal dialysis (PD), there seem to be differences in the outlook of patients who choose one modality over the other. There is currently l...

    Authors: Isabell Schellartz, Tim Ohnhaeuser, Thomas Mettang and Nadine Scholten

    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2021 22:107

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  2. Secondary hyperparathyroidism may lead to increased cardiovascular risk. The use of cinacalcet may improve bone and cardiovascular health with improved parathormone (PTH) and phosphate control.

    Authors: Helen Eddington, Rajkumar Chinnadurai, Helen Alderson, Sara T. Ibrahim, Constantina Chrysochou, Darren Green, Ibi Erekosima, Alastair Hutchison, Abdalla Bubtana, Janet Hegarty and Philip A. Kalra

    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2021 22:106

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  3. Renal transplant recipients have to see a nephrologist for regular follow-up for the rest of their lives. To reduce the burden for the patients, video consultation can be an alternative to traditional in-perso...

    Authors: Cecilie Varsi, Aud-Eldrid Stenehjem, Elin Børøsund and Lise Solberg Nes

    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2021 22:105

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  4. Inhibition of hypoxia-inducible factor prolyl hydroxylase (HIF-PH) is a novel choice for the treatment of renal anemia, and an oral HIF-PH inhibitor roxadustat was approved for renal anemia. Roxadustat has hig...

    Authors: Mitsuru Ichii, Katsuhito Mori, Daichi Miyaoka, Mika Sonoda, Yoshihiro Tsujimoto, Shinya Nakatani, Tetsuo Shoji and Masanori Emoto

    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2021 22:104

    Content type: Case report

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  5. The prevalence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) is predicted to rise over the next few decades. In resource-limited settings access to central laboratory services is limited. Point-of-care (POC) urine dipstick ...

    Authors: Sean D. Currin, Mwawi S. Gondwe, Nokthula B. Mayindi, Shingirai Chipungu, Bongekile L. Khoza, Stephen Tollman, June Fabian and Jaya A. George

    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2021 22:103

    Content type: Research article

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  6. Improved recognition of factors influencing graft survival has led to better short-term kidney transplant outcomes. However, efforts to prevent long-term graft decline and improve graft survival have seen more...

    Authors: Jonathan P. Law, Richard Borrows, David McNulty, Adnan Sharif and Charles J. Ferro

    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2021 22:102

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  7. Renal replacement therapy (RRT) in critically ill patients is associated with high morbidity and mortality. The appropriateness of RRT initiation is sometimes questioned in elderly patients. Therefore, we soug...

    Authors: Cécile Salathé, Elettra Poli, Marco Altarelli, Nathan Axel Bianchi and Antoine Guillaume Schneider

    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2021 22:101

    Content type: Research article

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  8. We aimed to present the demographic characteristics, clinical presentation, and outcomes of our multicenter cohort of adult KTx recipients with COVID-19.

    Authors: Ozgur Akin Oto, Savas Ozturk, Kenan Turgutalp, Mustafa Arici, Nadir Alpay, Ozgur Merhametsiz, Savas Sipahi, Melike Betul Ogutmen, Berna Yelken, Mehmet Riza Altiparmak, Numan Gorgulu, Erhan Tatar, Oktay Ozkan, Yavuz Ayar, Zeki Aydin, Hamad Dheir…

    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2021 22:100

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  10. The prevalence of osteopenia and osteoporosis is higher in patients with chronic kidney disease than that in the general population. Although physical exercise prevents bone loss in hemodialysis (HD) patients,...

    Authors: Kumi Watanabe, Yuka Kamijo, Mai Yanagi, Yoshitaka Ishibashi, Taku Harada and Masahiro Kohzuki

    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2021 22:98

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  11. Patients on chronic dialysis are at increased risk of postoperative mortality following elective surgery compared to patients with normal kidney function, but morbidity outcomes are less often reported. This s...

    Authors: Dharmenaan Palamuthusingam, Arun Nadarajah, David Wayne Johnson, Elaine Marie Pascoe, Carmel Marie Hawley and Magid Fahim

    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2021 22:97

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  12. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a rising medical concern around the world. End-stage kidney disease (ESKD) is the last stage of CKD stages that necessitates renal replacement therapy (RRT), such as hemodialysi...

    Authors: Maha K. Marzouq, Aseel F. Samoudi, Ahmad Samara, Sa’ed H. Zyoud and Samah W. Al-Jabi

    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2021 22:96

    Content type: Research article

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  13. Routine healthcare datasets capturing clinical and administrative information are increasingly being used to examine health outcomes. The accuracy of such data is not clearly defined. We examine the accuracy o...

    Authors: Ailish Nimmo, Retha Steenkamp, Rommel Ravanan and Dominic Taylor

    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2021 22:95

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  14. Patients on hemodialysis have less exercise capacity and lower health-related quality of life than healthy individuals without chronic kidney disease (CKD). One of the factors that may influence exercise behav...

    Authors: Mansour Ghafourifard, Banafshe Mehrizade, Hadi Hassankhani and Mohammad Heidari

    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2021 22:94

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  15. An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

    Authors: Nicholas S. Roetker, Haifeng Guo, Marquita R. Decker-Palmer, Yi Peng and James B. Wetmore

    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2021 22:93

    Content type: Correction

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    The original article was published in BMC Nephrology 2021 22:8

  16. Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common manifestation among patients critically ill with SARS-CoV-2 infection (Coronavirus 2019) and is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. The pathophysiology of...

    Authors: R. Lowe, M. Ferrari, M. Nasim-Mohi, A. Jackson, R. Beecham, K. Veighey, R. Cusack, D. Richardson, MPW Grocott, DZH Levett and A. Dushianthan

    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2021 22:92

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  17. COVID-19 infection in kidney transplant recipients often lead to allograft dysfunction. The allograft injury has various histopathological manifestations. Our case illustrates the unusual combination of allogr...

    Authors: Urmila Anandh, Swarnalata Gowrishankar, Alok Sharma, Alan Salama and Indranil Dasgupta

    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2021 22:91

    Content type: Case report

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  18. Peritoneal dialysis (PD)-associated peritonitis caused by nontuberculous Mycobacterium is rare; however, the number of cases has increased over the past decades. Mycobacteroides massiliense is a subspecies of the...

    Authors: Shintaro Hamada, Tomoaki Takata, Tsuyoshi Kitaura, Chiori Teraoka, Akio Aono, Sosuke Taniguchi, Yukari Mae, Hajime Isomoto, Hiroki Chikumi and Satoshi Mitarai

    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2021 22:90

    Content type: Case report

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  19. Preoperative characteristics of living kidney donors are commonly considered during donor selection and postoperative follow-up. However, the impact of preoperative uric acid (UA) levels is poorly documented. ...

    Authors: Kosuke Tanaka, Shigeyoshi Yamanaga, Yuji Hidaka, Sho Nishida, Kohei Kinoshita, Akari Kaba, Toshinori Ishizuka, Satoshi Hamanoue, Kenji Okumura, Chiaki Kawabata, Mariko Toyoda, Akira Miyata, Masayuki Kashima and Hiroshi Yokomizo

    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2021 22:89

    Content type: Research article

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  20. To field test the Disadvantaged Populations eGFR Epidemiology (DEGREE) protocol, outdoor point-of-care (POC) testing for serum creatinine, and a new risk factor module on chronic kidney disease of undetermined...

    Authors: Erika Figueroa-Solis, David Gimeno Ruiz de Porras and George L. Delclos

    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2021 22:88

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  21. Residual renal function is closely linked to quality of life, morbidity and mortality in dialysis patients. Beta-trace protein (BTP), a low molecular weight protein, has been suggested as marker of residual re...

    Authors: Sebastian Schwab, Carola Ellen Kleine, Dominik Bös, Sylvie Bohmann, Christian P. Strassburg, Philipp Lutz and Rainer Peter Woitas

    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2021 22:87

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  22. Thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA), a rare but serious complication of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), is associated with poor outcomes to conventional immunosuppressive therapy. Recently, eculizumab, a huma...

    Authors: Mi Jung Kim, Haekyung Lee, Yon Hee Kim, So Young Jin, Hee-Jin Kim, Doyeun Oh and Jin Seok Jeon

    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2021 22:86

    Content type: Case report

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  23. Physical frailty has previously been associated with adverse clinical outcomes in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD). This study aimed to determine whether impaired physical performance at baseline i...

    Authors: Hee-won Jung, In Young Choi, Dong Wook Shin, Kyungdo Han, Jung Eun Yoo, Sohyun Chun and Yongjin Yi

    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2021 22:85

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  24. As chronic kidney disease (CKD) is amongst the current global health challenges, this study is aiming to evaluate the long-term intake of total polyphenol and its subclasses in association with CKD incidence.

    Authors: Parvin Mirmiran, Emad Yuzbashian, Pegah Rahbarinejad, Golaleh Asghari and Fereidoun Azizi

    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2021 22:84

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  25. Primary hyperoxaluria(PH)is a rare autosomal recessive genetic disease that contains three subtypes (PH1, PH2 and PH3). Approximately 80% of PH patients has been reported as subtype PH1, this subtype of PH has...

    Authors: Chang Bao Xu, Xu Dong Zhou, Hong En Xu, Yong Li Zhao, Xing Hua Zhao, Dan Hua Liu, Yong An Tian, Xin Xin Hu, Jing Yuan Guan, Jian Cheng Guo, Wen Xue Tang and Xia Xue

    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2021 22:83

    Content type: Case report

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  26. Patients with rapidly declining renal function face the dual threat of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) and mortality prior to ESRD. What is less well characterised is whether the pattern of the renal trajectory...

    Authors: Ibrahim Ali, Rajkumar Chinnadurai, Sara T. Ibrahim and Philip A. Kalra

    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2021 22:82

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  27. Emory Dialysis serves an urban and predominantly African American population at its four outpatient dialysis facilities. We describe COVID-19 infection control measures implemented and clinical characteristics...

    Authors: Ibironke W. Apata, Jason Cobb, Jose Navarrete, John Burkart, Laura Plantinga and Janice P. Lea

    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2021 22:81

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  29. Whilst there are a number of publications comparing the relationship between body mass index (BMI) of kidney transplant recipients and graft/patient survival, no study has assessed this for a French patient co...

    Authors: Y. Foucher, M. Lorent, L. Albano, S. Roux, V. Pernin, M. Le Quintrec, C. Legendre, F. Buron, E. Morelon, S. Girerd, M. Ladrière, D. Glotz, C. Lefaucher, C. Kerleau, J. Dantal, J. Branchereau…

    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2021 22:79

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  31. Chronic kidney disease as well as acute kidney injury are associated with adverse outcomes after transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR). However, little is known about the prognostic implications of an ...

    Authors: Dominik Kylies, Sandra Freitag-Wolf, Florian Fulisch, Hatim Seoudy, Christian Kuhn, Lars Philipp Kihm, Thomas Pühler, Georg Lutter, Astrid Dempfle, Norbert Frey, Thorsten Feldkamp and Derk Frank

    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2021 22:77

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  32. A growing body of evidence supports the potential role of social determinants of health on health outcomes. However, few studies have examined the cumulative effect of social determinants of health on health o...

    Authors: Mukoso N. Ozieh, Emma Garacci, Rebekah J. Walker, Anna Palatnik and Leonard E. Egede

    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2021 22:76

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  33. Anti-glomerular basement membrane disease (GBM) disease is a rare autoimmune disease causing rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis and pulmonary haemorrhage. Recently, an association between COVID-19 and anti...

    Authors: Alexander Winkler, Emanuel Zitt, Hannelore Sprenger-Mähr, Afschin Soleiman, Manfred Cejna and Karl Lhotta

    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2021 22:75

    Content type: Case report

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  34. Lately, monoclonal gammopathy of renal significance (MGRS) has been defined as a group of renal disorders that are strongly associated with monoclonal protein, including amyloid immunoglobulin light chain (AL)...

    Authors: Erina Ono, Akira Ishii, Yoshiaki Higashi, Natsuko Koita, Takashi Ayaki, Katsuya Tanigaki, Shunsuke Takayanagi, Naoya Kondo, Kaoru Sakai, Shuichiro Endo, Hideki Yokoi, Takeshi Matsubara, Sachiko Minamiguchi, Ichizo Nishino, Ryosuke Takahashi and Motoko Yanagita

    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2021 22:74

    Content type: Case report

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  35. Hemodialysis patients with COVID-19 have been reported to be at higher risk for death than the general population. Several prognostic factors have been identified in the studies from Asian, European or America...

    Authors: Mabel Aoun, Rabab Khalil, Walid Mahfoud, Haytham Fatfat, Line Bou Khalil, Rashad Alameddine, Nabil Afiouni, Issam Ibrahim, Mohamad Hassan, Haytham Zarzour, Ali Jebai, Nina Mourad Khalil, Luay Tawil, Zeina Mechref, Zuhair El Imad, Fadia Chamma…

    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2021 22:73

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  36. Associations between microvascular variation and chronic kidney disease (CKD) have been reported previously. Non-invasive retinal fundus imaging enables evaluation of the microvascular network and may offer in...

    Authors: Euan N. Paterson, Chris Cardwell, Thomas J. MacGillivray, Emanuele Trucco, Alexander S. Doney, Paul Foster, Alexander P. Maxwell and Gareth J. McKay

    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2021 22:72

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  37. Higher plasma magnesium concentrations are associated with reduced cardiovascular disease risk in chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients. The importance of plasma magnesium concentration for vascular calcificat...

    Authors: Anique D. ter Braake, Larissa P. Govers, Mieke J. Peeters, Arjan D. van Zuilen, Jack F. M. Wetzels, Peter J. Blankenstijn, Joost G. J. Hoenderop, Jeroen H. F. de Baaij and Jan A. J. G. van den Brand

    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2021 22:71

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  38. Due to a critical shortage of available kidney grafts, most patients with Stage 5 Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD5) require bridging dialysis support. It remains unclear whether treatment by different dialysis mod...

    Authors: Robin W. M. Vernooij, Way Law, Sanne A. E. Peters, Bernard Canaud, Andrew Davenport, Muriel P. C. Grooteman, Fatih Kircelli, Francesco Locatelli, Francisco Maduell, Marion Morena, Menso J. Nubé, Ercan Ok, Ferran Torres, Mark Woodward, Peter J. Blankestijn and Michiel L. Bots

    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2021 22:70

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  39. It is unclear whether faster progression of atherosclerosis explains the higher risk of cardiovascular events in CKD. The objectives of this study were to 1. Characterize the associations of CKD with presence ...

    Authors: Srinivasan Beddhu, Robert E. Boucher, Jie Sun, Niranjan Balu, Michel Chonchol, Sankar Navaneethan, Glenn M. Chertow, Raymond Townsend, William Haley, Alfred K. Cheung, Molly B. Conroy, Dominic S. Raj, Dongxiang Xu, Thomas George, Reem Yunis, Guo Wei…

    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2021 22:69

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  40. Diabetic nephropathy, a major complication of diabetes, is the primary risk factor for dialysis, cardiovascular diseases, and mortality. Dietary fatty acids (FAs) have been revealed to be related with cardiova...

    Authors: Takuro Okamura, Hanako Nakajima, Yoshitaka Hashimoto, Saori Majima, Takafumi Senmaru, Emi Ushigome, Naoko Nakanishi, Masahide Hamaguchi, Mai Asano, Masahiro Yamazaki, Hiroshi Takakuwa and Michiaki Fukui

    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2021 22:68

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  41. Shared decision making (SDM) is recognized as the gold standard for patient-centered care. This study aimed to assess and compare the SDM among patients undergoing hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis for choo...

    Authors: Sepide Ghodsian, Mansour Ghafourifard and Akram Ghahramanian

    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2021 22:67

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  42. Sulfation of tyrosine, yielding O-sulfotyrosine, is a common but fixed post-translational modification in eukaryotes. Patients with increased circulating O-sulfotyrosine levels experience a faster decline in r...

    Authors: Shuai Chen, Yong-Hua Liu, Dao-Peng Dai, Zheng-Bin Zhu, Yang Dai, Zhi-Ming Wu, Li-Ping Zhang, Zhi-Feng Duan, Lin Lu, Feng-Hua Ding, Jin-Zhou Zhu and Rui-Yan Zhang

    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2021 22:66

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  43. Individuals undergoing hemodialysis in the United States frequently report pain and receive three-fold more opioid prescriptions than the general population. While opioid use is appropriate for select patients...

    Authors: Matthew Daubresse, G. Caleb Alexander, Deidra C. Crews, Dorry L. Segev, Krista L. Lentine and Mara A. McAdams-DeMarco

    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2021 22:65

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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Nephrology 2021 22:133

  44. Anemia is one of the common complications in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). However, there is no systematic investigation on the prevalence of anemia in CKD patients and its relationship with the ...

    Authors: Yan Shen, Jinwei Wang, Jing Yuan, Li Yang, Fangfang Yu, Xiaolei Wang, Ming-Hui Zhao, Luxia Zhang and Yan Zha

    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2021 22:64

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  45. Acute kidney injury is common in the surgical intensive care unit (ICU). It is associated with poor patient outcomes and high healthcare resource usage. This study’s primary objective is to help identify which...

    Authors: Wen En Joseph Wong, Siew Pang Chan, Juin Keith Yong, Yen Yu Sherlyn Tham, Jie Rui Gerald Lim, Ming Ann Sim, Chai Rick Soh, Lian Kah Ti and Tsong Huey Sophia Chew

    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2021 22:63

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  46. Renal resistive index (RI) predicts mortality in renal transplant recipients (RTR). However, its predictive value may be different according to the time of measurement. We analysed RI changes between 1 month a...

    Authors: Jean-Baptiste de Freminville, Louis-Marie Vernier, Jérome Roumy, Frédéric Patat, Philippe Gatault, Bénédicte Sautenet, Christelle Barbet, Hélène Longuet, Elodie Merieau, Matthias Buchler and Jean-Michel Halimi

    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2021 22:62

    Content type: Research article

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  47. An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

    Authors: Karine Moreau, Aurélie Desseix, Christine Germain, Pierre Merville, Lionel Couzi, Rodolphe Thiébaut and Philippe Chauveau

    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2021 22:61

    Content type: Correction

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    The original article was published in BMC Nephrology 2021 22:31

  48. While catheters are often thought the result of emergency hemodialysis (HD) initiation among patients with little or no pre-dialysis nephrology care, the role of patient level of engagement in care and modalit...

    Authors: Vanessa Grubbs, Bernard G. Jaar, Kerri L. Cavanaugh, Patti L. Ephraim, Jessica M. Ameling, Courtney Cook, Raquel C. Greer and L. Ebony Boulware

    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2021 22:60

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  49. Living-donor transplantation is the best treatment option in patients with chronic kidney failure. Global data show that women are less likely to be kidney recipients than men but are more likely to become liv...

    Authors: Laura Rota-Musoll, Serena Brigidi, Esmeralda Molina-Robles, Ester Oriol-Vila, Laureano Perez-Oller and Mireia Subirana-Casacuberta

    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2021 22:59

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  50. For individuals in need of dialysis, patient participation is important when determining care goals and in decision making regarding dialysis modality. Nephrologists hold a key role in delivering evidence-base...

    Authors: Tone Andersen-Hollekim, Bodil J. Landstad, Marit Solbjør, Marit Kvangarsnes and Torstein Hole

    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2021 22:58

    Content type: Research article

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