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Successful peritoneal dialysis using a percutaneous tube for peritoneal drainage in an extremely low birth weight infant: a case report

BACKGROUND: Peritoneal dialysis (PD) for acute kidney injury (AKI) of newborns has been performed safely. AKI occurs in 8 to 24% of extremely low birth weight (ELBW) infants. Although PD has only been used occasionally in ELBW infants, prognosis is poor for ELBW infants with AKI. Several reports hav...

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Autores principales: Yokoyama, Satoshi, Nukada, Takayuki, Ikeda, Yuka, Hara, Shigeto, Yoshida, Akira
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5680410/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29124521
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40792-017-0390-3