CONCLUSIONS: A well-organized nephrological outpatient clinic for conservative follow-up of CKD stage five patients can delay dialysis entry as long as 1 year. Starting dialysis with eGFR lower than 6 ml/min does not confer any increased risk of death in selected early-referral patients.
PMID: 25035094 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Journal of Nephrology)