Canada: Dialysis And Transplantation Among Aboriginal Children With Kidney Failure

Canada: Dialysis And Transplantation Among Aboriginal Children With Kidney Failure Susan M. Samuel, Bethany J. Foster, Marcello A. Tonelli, Alberto Nettel-Aguirre, Andrea Soo, R. Todd Alexander, Lynden Crowshoe, and Brenda R. Hemmelgarn, 2011   Background: Relatively little is known about the management and outcomes of Aboriginal children with renal failure in Canada. We evaluated differences in dialysis modality, time spent on dialysis, rates of kidney transplantation, and patient and...

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