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Renal Replacement Therapy: A European Perspective

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The creation and long term management of vascular access (VA) for chronic haemodialysis (HD) patients has been and remains a challenging aspect of vascular surgery practice. VA dysfunction is a major determinant of morbidity and hospitalization among the HD patients [1, 2].

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    Faisal M. Shaikh

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Shaikh, F.M., Walsh, S.R. (2017). Renal Replacement Therapy: A European Perspective. In: Dardik, A. (eds) Vascular Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33745-6_40

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