Kidney transplantation is well known to increase survival and improve quality of life over conventional dialysis therapies. But are contemporary, intensive dialysis therapies, such as nocturnal home hemodialysis, associated with outcomes as good as those obtained with deceased donor transplantation?
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Schaefer, H., Helderman, J. Contemporary dialysis: as good as transplantation?. Nat Rev Nephrol 6, 8–9 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrneph.2009.190
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