Tackling the Fallout From Chronic Kidney Disease of Unknown Etiology: Why We Need to Focus on Providing Peritoneal Dialysis in Rural, Low-Resource Settings
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Nishanthe Nanayakkara, A.W.M. Wazil, Lishanthe Gunerathne, Sewmini Dickowita, Robert Rope, Charaka Ratnayake, Anjali Saxena and Shuchi Anand Department of Medicine, Teaching Hospital, Kandy, Sri Lanka; Department of Medicine, Renal Care and Research Unit, Girandurukotte, Sri Lanka; Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, USA; and Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, San Jose, California, USA
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