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HIV and dialysis: is it a real risk?
G Di Lullo1, A Ronzoni, B De Angelis
1Renal Unit of St. Paolo Hospital, Milan, Italy.
The need to expound this work was born of the necessity to confront all the organisational difficulties that present themselves with the arrival of a HIV+ patient for dialysis in our centre. On such occasions, in fact, we were unable to find a protocol, guidelines or a text that could help us in a complete and adequate way, to resolve the doubts, the fears and the practical, ethical and legal problems that we suddenly had to face.
The need to expound this work was born of the necessity to confront all the organisational difficulties that present themselves with the arrival of a HIV+ patient for dialysis in our centre. On such occasions, in fact, we were unable to find a protocol, guidelines or a text that could help us in a complete and adequate way, to resolve the doubts, the fears and the practical, ethical and legal problems that we suddenly had to face.