HIV and dialysis: is it a real risk?
The need to expound this work was born of the necessity to confront all the organisational difficulties that present themselves with the arrival of a HIV+ patient for dialysis in our centre. On such occasions, in fact, we were unable to find a protocol, guidelines or a text that could help us in a complete and adequate way, to resolve the doubts, the fears and the practical, ethical and legal problems that we suddenly had to face.
Di Lullo
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G
Renal Unit of St. Paolo Hospital, Milan, Italy.
Ronzoni
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A
De Angelis
B
B
Dall'Olmo
F
F
D000328:Adult; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000517:prevention & control*; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000150:complications* / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000635:transmission; D006801:Humans; D017053:Infection Control / Q000379:methods*; D007558:Italy; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000150:complications* / Q000628:therapy*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D006435:Renal Dialysis / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012307:Risk Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires