The European Paediatric Dialysis Working Group has recently produced recommendations for the management of infants on dialysis. This document is timely because, despite the fact that such infants are increasingly being accepted onto renal replacement therapy programmes, most centres have very little experience in the care of this demanding group of patients.
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Rees, L. Infant dialysis—what makes it special?. Nat Rev Nephrol 9, 15–17 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrneph.2012.263
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