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.
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