An island of widows: the human face of Mesoamerican endemic nephropathy.
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Abstract
The authors are second-year medical students who spent the previous summer at a nongovernmental organization in Nicaragua. As interns on the public health team, they evaluated barriers to peritoneal dialysis in an agricultural community experiencing an epidemic of chronic kidney disease and end-stage renal disease.
Medical subject headings
- Renal Insufficiency, Chronic