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Edited by Norbert Lameire and Ravindra L. Mehta. 875 pp., illustrated. New York, Marcel Dekker, 2000. $250. ISBN 0-8247-8871-0.

Depurative therapy is life-sustaining for more than 300,000 patients with end-stage renal disease in the United States and for many others in whom acute renal failure develops during their hospital course. Yet the annual overall mortality in end-stage renal disease is over 20 percent, and in acute renal failure, survival is less than 50 percent — numbers that have remained unchanged for many years. These dismal statistics attest to the imperfection of artificial renal-replacement therapy.

Complications of Dialysis catalogues the causes of the problems inherent in the treatment of renal failure. The editors have divided the complications into those related . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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