Long-Term Survival for Hemodialysis Patients Differ in Japan Versus Europe and the USA. What Might the Reasons Be?

Artif Organs. 2018 Dec;42(12):1112-1118. doi: 10.1111/aor.13363. Epub 2018 Nov 11.

Authors

Kenichi Matsuda¹, Rachel Fissell², Stephen Ash³, Bernd Stegmayr⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, University of Yamanashi School of Medicine, Yamanashi, Japan.
² Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.
³ HemoCleanse Technologies, LLC and Ash Access Technology, Inc, Lafayette, IN, USA.
⁴ Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umea University, Umea, Sweden.

PMID: 30417399
DOI: 10.1111/aor.13363

No abstract available

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Europe
Humans
Japan
Practice Patterns, Physicians'*
Renal Dialysis / mortality*
Survival Rate
United States