End-Stage Renal Failure and the Aged in the United Kingdom
- 1 January 1985
- journal article
- technology and-health-care-for-the-elderly
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care
- Vol. 1 (1) , 41-52
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0266462300003688
Abstract
The kidneys are the body's main organs of excretion. They are, however, subject to serious, progressive, and irreversible deterioration, and as a result, to a decreased ability to extract poisonous wastes and excess fluids from the blood. Almost invariably, this condition proceeds to the point where it is termed end-stage renal failure (ESRF). As the name suggests, ESRF is fatal.Keywords
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