• Photo by Ed Kashi. A woman enduring CKD receives dialysis at the Rajiv Gandhi Medical Institute of Sciences in Srikakulam, India, on January 30, 2016.

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Hemodialysis in Times of War

Sahar H. Koubar Sahar H. Koubar, MBBS, is an assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Kidney Diseases and Hypertension, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

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