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Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2007 22(2):663-665; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl596
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Inequality of renal replacement therapy in the low-income countries

Email: zenjin03@rb3.so-net.ne.jp

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Sir,

As Grassmann and associates [1] have shown, chronic renal failure (CRF) patients treated by renal replacement therapy (RRT) worldwide are increasing rapidly.

The cost of RRT, especially the cost of dialysis, has been growing rapidly with an increasing numbers of RRT patients [2], becoming a financial problem even in Euro–American countries and Japan. More seriously, developing countries have been struck by a surge in the RRT population and a sharp rise in reimbursement costs for RRT. Although . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Hideo Hidai

Department of Urology
Yokohama Dai-ichi Hospital
Japan


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