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Timing of sudden death relative to the hemodialysis procedure

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boxed-textBleyer AJ et al. (2006) Characteristics of sudden death in hemodialysis patients. Kidney Int 69: 2268–2273

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Perl, J., Chan, C. Timing of sudden death relative to the hemodialysis procedure. Nat Rev Nephrol 2, 668–669 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncpneph0345

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