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Is silent cerebral infarction associated with vascular events in patients undergoing hemodialysis?

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boxed-textNaganuma T et al. (2005) Silent cerebral infarction predicts vascular events in hemodialysis patients. Kidney Int 67: 2434–2439

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  1. Section of Epidemiology and Physiopathology of Renal Diseases and Hypertension of the National Research Council, Reggio Calabria

    Giovanni Tripepi & Carmine Zoccali

  2. Unit of Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation and the Section of Epidemiology and Physiopathology of Renal Diseases and Hypertension of the National Research Council, Reggio Calabria, Italy

    Giovanni Tripepi & Carmine Zoccali

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