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Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2009 24(12):3895-3896; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfp438
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Initiation of dialysis—the right timing and the right tools

Nephrol Dial Transplant 2009; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfp443

E-mail: tlib@amg.gda.pl

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Sir,

Two interesting studies have been published in Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation linking kidney function at initiation of dialysis to survival [1,2]. The authors of these papers, in concordance with each other, found that starting dialysis with relatively high estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) was associated with higher mortality. Their findings appear to contradict the concept of an ‘early’ or ‘healthy’ start of renal replacement therapy. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Tomasz Liberek, Alicja Warzocha, Michal  Chmielewski and Boleslaw  Rutkowski

Department of Nephrology, Transplantology and Internal Medicine, Medical University of Gdansk, Poland


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