title: Chronic renal disease. Some sociological aspects of dialysis and transplantation.
abstract: Each year in California more than two thousand persons die of renal disease. Chronic uremia formerly was considered to have a hopeless prognosis. Recently the development of two procedures, chronic maintenance hemodialysis and renal homotransplantation, has offered substantial hope for the salvage of patients who otherwise would die of uremia.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002908:Chronic Disease; D006801:Humans; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D008875:Middle Aged; D006435:Renal Dialysis; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous; D014511:Uremia / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy*