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Chronic Kidney Disease (cont.)

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Author: Pranay Kathuria, MD, FACP, FASN, Chief, Section of Nephrology, Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Oklahoma College of Medicine at Tulsa.

Editor: Melissa Conrad Stoppler, MD, Chief Medical Editor

REFERENCE:

National Kidney Foundation. "NKF KDOQUI Guidelines."

Previous contributing authors and editors: Coauthor(s): David H Adler, MD, Staff Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Alameda County Medical Center, Highland Hospital.

Editors: Bradley Fields Schwartz, DO, FACS, Director, Center for Urologic Laparoscopy and Endourology, Associate Professor of Urology, Department of Surgery, Southern Illinois University; Francisco Talavera, PharmD, PhD, Senior Pharmacy Editor, eMedicine; Martin I Resnick, MD, Lester Persky Professor and Chair, Department of Urology; Professor, Department of Oncology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.


Last Editorial Review: 2/23/2010

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