CHRONIC RENAL DISEASE - SOME SOCIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF DIALYSIS AND TRANSPLANTATION

Abstract

Each year in California more than 2,000 persons die of renal disease. Chronic uremia formerly was considered to have a hopeless prognosis. Recently the development of 2 procedures, chronic maintenance hemodialysis and renal homotransplantation, has offered substantial hope for the salvage of patients who otherwise would die of uremia.