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Chronic Kidney Disease in the Elderly

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Aging kidneys undergo structural and functional changes that resemble chronic kidney disease. The management of older adults with chronic kidney disease is complicated by the presence of many other comorbid conditions, frailty and sometimes conflicting treatment priorities that arise from other medical conditions. For those elderly patients with more coexisting diseases and functional impairment, an individualised patient-centred care approach is more appropriate. The benefits of recommended drug intervention and dialysis therapy can be highly variable in older adults and definitely differ from those younger patients.

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  1. Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Prince of Wales Hospital, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong

    Kai Ming Chow MBChB, FRCP

  2. Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Prince of Wales Hospital, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong

    Philip Kam-tao Li MD, FRCP, FACP

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Chow, K.M., Li, P.Kt. (2014). Chronic Kidney Disease in the Elderly. In: Arici, M. (eds) Management of Chronic Kidney Disease. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54637-2_30

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