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  1. The annual survey of the Japanese Society for Dialysis Therapy Renal Data Registry (JRDR) was conducted for 4413 dialysis facilities at the end of 2017; among which 4360 facilities (98.8%) responded to the fac...

    Authors: Kosaku Nitta, Ikuto Masakane, Norio Hanafusa, Masatomo Taniguchi, Takeshi Hasegawa, Shigeru Nakai, Shunsuke Goto, Atsushi Wada, Takayuki Hamano, Junichi Hoshino, Nobuhiko Joki, Masaki Abe, Keichi Yamamoto and Hidetomo Nakamoto
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2019 5:53
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  2. Constipation is highly prevalent in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and is primarily characterized by decreased intestinal motility. This chronic disorder affects the quality of life of patients. Ho...

    Authors: Ryota Ikee, Kazuhiro Yano and Tomomi Tsuru
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2019 5:51
    Content type: Review Published on:

  3. Elderly adults undergoing hemodialysis (HD) have multiple comorbidities, physical frailty, and functional dependence with activities of daily living (ADL). ADL difficulty is an early predictor of ADL dependenc...

    Authors: Toshiki Kutsuna, Yusuke Isobe, Takaaki Watanabe, Yusuke Matsunaga, Satomi Kusaka, Yasuaki Kusumoto, Junko Tsuchiya, Masaru Umeda, Hiroyuki Watanabe, Shinobu Shimizu, Atsushi Yoshida and Atsuhiko Matsunaga
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2019 5:50
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  5. Thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA) in patients with connective tissue disease is rare but life-threatening. In particular, the survival rate of patients with dermatomyositis (DM) that develop TMA is low. The eff...

    Authors: Norifumi Hayashi, Keiichirou Okada, Yuko Tsuruyama, Yu Kagaya, Sho Kumano, Yuki Ishikura, Kiminobu Takeda, Masayuki Nanbu, Keiji Fujimoto, Hiroki Adachi and Hitoshi Yokoyama
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2019 5:48
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  6. Higher serum uric acid (UA) levels are associated with poorer renal prognosis. In kidney transplantation, both donors and recipients are diagnosed as having chronic kidney diseases (CKD) based on renal functio...

    Authors: Mineaki Kitamura, Yasushi Mochizuki, Tsuyoshi Matsuda, Yuta Mukae, Hiromi Nakanishi, Yuki Ota, Tadashi Uramatsu, Yoko Obata, Hideki Sakai, Hiroshi Mukae and Tomoya Nishino
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2019 5:47
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  7. This study investigated the prevalence of sarcopenia or sarcopenic obesity and their association with frailty and protein-energy wasting (PEW) in hemodialysis patients.

    Authors: Masakazu Saitoh, Masumi Ogawa, Hisae Kondo, Kiichi Suga, Tetsuya Takahashi, Haruki Itoh and Yoichiro Tabata
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2019 5:46
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  8. Diabetes mellitus is the leading cause of end-stage renal disease. Monitoring and controlling normal blood sugar levels play a critical role in slowing the progression of micro- and macrovascular complications...

    Authors: Mohammad K. Hemadneh, Sohaib T. Khatib, Samer A. Hasan, Ihab N. Tahboub, Emad Khazneh and Sa’ed H. Zyoud
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2019 5:45
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  9. Diabetes has become the most common cause of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) requiring renal replacement therapy (RRT) in most countries around the world. Peritoneal dialysis (PD) is valuable for patients newly...

    Authors: Yukio Maruyama, Chieko Higuchi, Hiroaki Io, Keiichi Wakabayashi, Hiraku Tsujimoto, Yasushi Tsujimoto, Hidemichi Yuasa, Munekazu Ryuzaki, Yasuhiko Ito and Hidetomo Nakamoto
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2019 5:44
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  10. Appropriate timing of peritoneal dialysis (PD) catheter implantation and PD initiation is important. Several guidelines suggest starting PD at least 2 weeks after PD catheter implantation. Recently, urgent-sta...

    Authors: Naohiro Toda, Motoko Yanagita and Hideki Yokoi
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2019 5:43
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  11. Renin-angiotensin system inhibitors (RASIs), either angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors or angiotensin receptor blockers, are widely used in patients with non-dialysis chronic kidney disease, as a renin-a...

    Authors: Minoru Ito, Yosuke Saka, Yusuke Kuroki, Kaoru Yasuda, Hiraku Tsujimoto, Yasushi Tsujimoto, Hidemichi Yuasa, Munekazu Ryuzaki, Yasuhiko Ito and Hidetomo Nakamoto
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2019 5:42
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  12. Adherence to dietary prescriptions among patients with chronic kidney disease is known to prevent deterioration of kidney functions and slow down the risk for morbidity and mortality. This study determined fac...

    Authors: Rose Okoyo Opiyo, Peter Suwirakwenda Nyasulu, Joyce Olenja, Moleen Zunza, Kim A. Nguyen, Zipporah Bukania, Esther Nabakwe, Alexander Mbogo and Anthony Omolo Were
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2019 5:41
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  13. Generally, the preferred route of vascular access in chronic kidney disease patients is an arteriovenous fistula (AVF) rather than grafts. However, approximately 7% of 300,000 Japanese hemodialysis (HD) patien...

    Authors: Masatoshi Matsunami, Yuki Nakamura, Kiho Tanaka, Yoshifumi Ubara and Yasuo Ishii
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2019 5:40
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  14. Secondary hyperparathyroidism (SHPT) is a common complication in advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD). The aims of this study are to clarify the efficacy of etelcalcetide, a novel-approved intravenous calcimi...

    Authors: Sawako Kato, Masato Tsuboi, Masahiko Ando, Yuya Itano and Shoichi Maruyama
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2019 5:39
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  15. Taste disorder is a common problem in patients with chronic kidney disease and end-stage renal disease. Specifically, salty taste disorder is associated with excess salt intake. Many factors affect taste activ...

    Authors: Kenta Torigoe, Yoko Obata, Shimpei Morimoto, Miki Torigoe, Satoru Oka, Tadashi Uramatsu, Hiroshi Mukae and Tomoya Nishino
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2019 5:38
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  16. Success in peritoneal dialysis (PD) requires a well-functioning catheter, and catheter placement at PD initiation is extremely important for long-term PD. Although several randomized, controlled trials (RCTs) ...

    Authors: Tsutomu Sakurada, Atsushi Ueda, Daisuke Komukai, Kiyotaka Uchiyama, Yasushi Tsujimoto, Hidemichi Yuasa, Munekazu Ryuzaki, Yasuhiko Ito, Masashi Tomo and Hidetomo Nakamoto
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2019 5:37
    Content type: Review Published on:

  17. Heart failure is a significant cause of death and hospitalization in dialysis patients. Controlling the volume status in PD, especially, is difficult, and transferring the PD patients to hemodialysis results m...

    Authors: Kohsuke Terada, Yukinao Sakai, Yuichiro Sumi, Koji Mugishima, Sayuri Kawasaki, Fumiaki Itagaki, Takehisa Yamada and Shuichi Tsuruoka
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2019 5:36
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  18. With aging, and as the duration of their dependence on dialysis becomes longer, maintenance hemodialysis patients experience decreased urine volume and lose the need to urinate. It is not known whether lower u...

    Authors: Tadasuke Ando, Takahisa Kamegawa, Toshitaka Shin and Hiromitsu Mimata
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2019 5:35
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  19. Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) is a relatively rare but important cause of bleeding diathesis in patients on maintenance dialysis. When the control of underlying disorders causing DIC is not achi...

    Authors: Eriko Eguchi
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2019 5:34
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  20. A 38-year-old female undergoing maintenance hemodialysis became pregnant. To avoid X-ray exposure, plasma levels of natriuretic peptides were mainly used to determine dry weight. Dry weight was increased every...

    Authors: Naomi Matsuo, Yushi Nakayama, Hideki Inoue, Yuichiro Izumi and Masashi Mukoyama
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2019 5:32
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  21. An error occurred during the publication of a number of articles in Renal Replacement Therapy. Several articles were published in volume 5 with a duplicate citation number.

    Authors:
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2019 5:33
    Content type: Correction Published on:

    The original article was published in Renal Replacement Therapy 2019 5:26

    The original article was published in Renal Replacement Therapy 2019 5:28

    The original article was published in Renal Replacement Therapy 2019 5:25

    The original article was published in Renal Replacement Therapy 2019 5:27

    The original article was published in Renal Replacement Therapy 2019 5:24

  22. Far-infrared radiation therapy (FIRT), which utilizes an invisible electromagnetic wave, has demonstrated its ability to improve vascular access flow for hemodialysis (HD) patients. Although previous overseas ...

    Authors: Hiroaki Io, Junichiro Nakata, Rumi Aoyama, Hiroyuki Inoshita, Takanori Nakano, Masanori Ishizaka, Mitsumine Fukui, Yasuhiko Tomino and Yusuke Suzuki
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2019 5:31
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  23. Cystinuria is a rare autosomal recessive metabolic disorder that affects renal and intestinal cystine transport. Cystine stones are found in only 1–2% of all stone formers. Patients with cystinuria are at high...

    Authors: Masatoshi Matsunami, Kazuya Kinoshita, Kiho Tanaka, Yuki Nakamura, Kenichi Ohashi, Takeshi Fujii, Yoshifumi Ubara and Yasuo Ishii
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2019 5:30
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  24. Kidney function after acute myocardial infarction (AMI) correlates with patient prognosis. Several studies reported the role that indoxyl sulfate (IS), a uremic toxin, plays in the progression of chronic kidne...

    Authors: Shuhei Watanabe, Hideki Fujii, Keiji Kono, Kentaro Watanabe, Shunsuke Goto, Susumu Sakamoto and Shinichi Nishi
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2019 5:29
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  25. This study complies with the reorganization of health care provider processes based on the cost of life cycle of the product. The aim is to determine the costs of treatment administration of extracorporeal dia...

    Authors: Silvia Grazzini, Claudia Razzauti, Lea Paola Fabbri, Michele Galatà, Stefano Bellucci, Ilaria Colivicchi and Maria Elvira Mancino
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2019 5:26
    Content type: Research Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in Renal Replacement Therapy 2019 5:33

  26. In recent years, a concept of renal rehabilitation has become widely known among nephrology specialists, dialysis specialists, kidney transplantation specialists, rehabilitation specialists, nutrition speciali...

    Authors: Kunihiro Yamagata, Junichi Hoshino, Hitoshi Sugiyama, Norio Hanafusa, Yugo Shibagaki, Yasuhiro Komatsu, Tsuneo Konta, Naohiko Fujii, Eiichiro Kanda, Tadashi Sofue, Kiyonobu Ishizuka, Masashi Kitagawa, Keiji Kono, Norikazu Hinamoto, Takayuki Miyai, Kiyomi Koike…
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2019 5:28
    Content type: Position statement Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in Renal Replacement Therapy 2019 5:33

  27. This observational study investigated the safety and effectiveness of continuous erythropoietin receptor activator in patients with renal anemia in Japan.

    Authors: Hidehiro Tabata, Hiroyuki Kanno, Ayako Murayama, Tadashi Ishii, Ryosuke Harada and Yukio Udagawa
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2019 5:25
    Content type: Research Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in Renal Replacement Therapy 2019 5:33

  28. Volume overload in hemodialysis patients is an independent risk factor for cardiovascular event-related mortality. The number of B-lines observed using lung ultrasound is correlated with the severity of pulmon...

    Authors: Keiko Kawachi, Katsuya Kajimoto, Shigeru Otsubo and Kosaku Nitta
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2019 5:27
    Content type: Research Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in Renal Replacement Therapy 2019 5:33

  29. Bowel perforation in peritoneal dialysis (PD) is mainly caused during the perioperative period. Delayed bowel perforation is difficult to diagnose because of its heterogenous clinical signs and rarity. Previou...

    Authors: Takaya Handa, Hiroyuki Suzuki, Hiroyuki Matsubara, Hiroaki Terajima and Tatsuo Tsukamoto
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2019 5:24
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in Renal Replacement Therapy 2019 5:33

  30. Although individuals undergoing maintenance hemodialysis are a major sarcopenic population, there are few methods to assess their skeletal muscle mass conveniently. Here, we investigated the usefulness of seru...

    Authors: Homare Shimohata, Marina Yamashita, Kentaro Ohgi, Ryuji Tsujimoto, Hiroshi Maruyama, Mamiko Takayasu, Kouichi Hirayama and Masaki Kobayashi
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2019 5:23
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  31. Vascular access failure (VAF) is a critical problem in patients undergoing hemodialysis (HD). Importantly, VAF impairs the quality of life in patients undergoing HD while imposing high medical costs. A variety...

    Authors: Hiroyuki Tsukada, Motonobu Nakamura, Tomohito Mizuno, Nobuhiko Satoh and Masaomi Nangaku
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2019 5:22
    Content type: Review Published on:

  32. On-line hemodiafiltration (OL-HDF) has been generally provided mainly by the postdilution method in Europe and the rest of the world; however, in Japan, it has been provided mostly by the predilution method in...

    Authors: Yusaku Tanaka, Hiroyuki Michiwaki, Hirofumi Asa, Daisuke Hirose, Tomohiro Tao and Jun Minakuchi
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2019 5:21
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  33. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of prolonged direct hemoperfusion using polymyxin B immobilized fiber cartridges (PMX-DHP) on interleukin-6 (IL-6) concentration in patients with septic shock.

    Authors: Kyohei Miyamoto, Yu Kawazoe, Shigeo Negi, Naoaki Shibata, Atsuhiro Ogawa, Nozomu Shima, Kosei Kunitatsu, Yukihiro Shima, Nobuko Yamamoto, Masahiro Kaneko, Maki Kida, Masaou Tanaka, Masaki Ohya, Takashi Shigematsu and Seiya Kato
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2019 5:20
    Content type: Research Published on:

  34. Calciphylaxis, a multifactorial cutaneous vascular disease, is a rare but therapy-resistant and life-threatening disorder that usually occurs in patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD). Although there ha...

    Authors: Yuuki Mima, Yukihiro Wada, Yasuto Shikida, Toma Hamada, Nobuhiro Kanazawa, Ayana Iida, Motonori Sugiyama and Takanori Shibata
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2019 5:19
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  35. The widening gap between organ availability and need is resulting in a worldwide crisis, particularly concerning kidney transplantation. Regenerative medicine options are becoming increasingly advanced and are...

    Authors: Nicholas M. Wragg, Liam Burke and Samantha L. Wilson
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2019 5:18
    Content type: Review Published on:

  36. Ferritin is a well-known marker of iron deficiency anemia, but the target in maintenance hemodialysis (MHD) patients remains controversial. This study examined the association between baseline ferritin levels ...

    Authors: Raku Son, Takuya Fujimaru, Takeshi Kimura, Fumika Taki, Miyuki Futatsuyama, Masahiko Nagahama, Masaaki Nakayama and Yasuhiro Komatsu
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2019 5:17
    Content type: Research Published on:

  37. The patient was a 72-year-old woman who had been under dialysis for a long time to chronic renal failure of unknown etiology. Her dialysis vintage was 22 years. She was under treatment with cinacalcet for seco...

    Authors: Yoshiyuki Oshiro, Takumu Nitta and Masaki Oomoto
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2019 5:16
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  38. It is necessary to define the problem of acute kidney injury (AKI) after non-cardiac surgery in order to design interventions to prevent AKI. The study aimed to evaluate the occurrence, determinants and outcom...

    Authors: Taiwo Akeem Lawal, Yemi Raheem Raji, Samuel Oluwole Ajayi, Adebowale Dele Ademola, Adeyinka Francis Ademola, Omobolaji O. Ayandipo, Tinuola Adigun, Olakayode Olaolu Ogundoyin, Dare Isaac Olulana, Adanze Onyenonachi Asinobi and Babatunde Lawal Salako
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2019 5:15
    Content type: Research Published on:

  39. Dialysis is a life-sustaining treatment, but many patients suffer symptoms during dialysis and take time to recover. Previous reports have linked recovery time to intra-dialytic hypotension and rapid solute cl...

    Authors: Suree Yoowannakul, Kamonwan Tangvoraphonkchai and Andrew Davenport
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2019 5:14
    Content type: Research Published on:

  40. Schistocytosis, which is often observed in thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) patients, is a rare complication in myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) patients.

    Authors: Masahiro Okabe, Daisuke Nakashima, Nanae Matsuo, Yukio Maruyama and Takashi Yokoo
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2019 5:13
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  41. Since 2015, the Committee for International Communication on Academic Research of the Japanese Society for Dialysis Therapy has held its Asian symposium during the society’s Annual Congress to discuss the pres...

    Authors: Toru Hyodo, Masafumi Fukagawa, Nobuhito Hirawa, Matsuhiko Hayashi, Kosaku Nitta, Sovandy Chan, Phanekham Souvannamethy, Minjur Dorji, Chuluuntsetseg Dorj and I. Gde Raka Widiana
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2019 5:12
    Content type: Review Published on:

  42. A spontaneous iliopsoas muscle hematoma is relatively rare and often associated with abnormal coagulation. Nafamostat mesilate is an anticoagulant agent that is sometimes used to treat hemodialysis patients at...

    Authors: Kunihisa Nezu, Takashi Yoshioka, Hiromichi Katayama, Taro Fukushi and Atsushi Kyan
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2019 5:11
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  43. We introduced criteria for the clinical diagnosis of dialysis-related amyloidosis (DRA) from the Amyloidosis Research Group study supported by a Grant-in-Aid from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of ...

    Authors: Shinichi Nishi, Suguru Yamamoto, Junichi Hoshino, Kenmei Takaichi and Hironobu Naiki
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2019 5:10
    Content type: Review Published on:

  44. Calcium carbonate is a first-line therapy for hyperphosphatemia in hemodialysis patients but is associated with progressive coronary and aortic calcification. Sevelamer compounds are alternatives to calcium-co...

    Authors: Takashi Akiba, Keitaro Yokoyama, Hiroki Hase, Masahide Mizobuchi, Ryoichi Ando, Shuji Sakai, Kenji Fukushima and Tadao Akizawa
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2019 5:9
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  45. In patients undergoing home dialysis, conventionally, Kt/V has been regarded as an index of the removal efficiency per dialysis session. However, more recently, it has been considered that the hemodialysis produc...

    Authors: Kaya Murakami, Kenichi Kokubo, Minoru Hirose, Kozue Kobayashi and Hirosuke Kobayashi
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2019 5:8
    Content type: Research Published on:

  46. MLT-550N is a device to measure the body fluid volume based on bioimpedance spectroscopy. When extracellular water (ECW) or total body water (TBW) is measured with MLT-550N before and after hemodialysis, the c...

    Authors: Masatomo Yashiro and Hirohisa Kotera
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2019 5:7
    Content type: Research Published on:

  47. Selective plasma exchange (SePE) is a new simple plasma exchange (PE) modality that enables removal of small and medium-sized molecules without removing larger substances such as coagulation factors. In this s...

    Authors: Ako Hanaoka, Toshihide Naganuma, Yoshiaki Takemoto, Junji Uchida, Tatsuya Nakatani, Daijiro Kabata and Ayumi Shintani
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2019 5:6
    Content type: Research Published on:

  48. Hexadecyl-immobilized porous cellulose beads (HICBs) can be used to remove β2-microglobulin, as well as several inflammatory cytokines and free protein-binding uremic toxins (PBUTs). Interleukin-6 and PBUT lev...

    Authors: Naoki Suzuki, Yasumasa Hitomi, Yoshihiro Tsuji, Yusuke Sakai, Masato Nishimura, Tetsuya Hashimoto and Hiroyuki Kobayashi
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2019 5:5
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  49. Chronic kidney disease-mineral bone disorder (CKD-MBD) is a systemic disorder of mineral and bone metabolism. In patients undergoing peritoneal dialysis (PD), serum levels of calcium (Ca), phosphate (P), and p...

    Authors: Kosaku Nitta, Norio Hanafusa and Ken Tsuchiya
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2019 5:4
    Content type: Review Published on:

  50. The number of kidney transplants has gradually increased in the last decade; it was 1742 in Japan in 2017. The outcomes have improved year by year, with the indications for transplantation expanding accordingl...

    Authors: Takashi Yagisawa, Makiko Mieno, Naotsugu Ichimaru, Ken Morita, Michio Nakamura, Kiyohiko Hotta, Takashi Kenmochi and Kenji Yuzawa
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2019 5:3
    Content type: Position statement Published on:
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