A History of the Treatment of Renal Failure by Dialysis
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: June 15, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780198515470
First sentence: Kidney failure is by no means as common as cancers or heart disease, but by the end of the last millennium nearly one million individuals worldwide, who had suffered complete and irreversible failure of kidney function, were being maintained alive by a 'temporary' treatment: dialysis.