Peritoneal dialysis in the nineth decade
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Amedeo F. Vecchi; Massimo Maccario; Claudio Ponticelli
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Article
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1996
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Springer
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English
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The clinical outcome of 21 patients on CAPD who were older than 79 years at the time of beginning dialysis is reported in the present paper. These patients represented 5% of 420 patients who were admitted to the CAPD program of our Unit between 1980 and 1995. Fifteen of the patients were men and 6 w