American Journal of Kidney Diseases
Volume 50, Issue 6 , Pages 989-1000, December 2007

Efficacy of Intravenous Methoxy Polyethylene Glycol-Epoetin Beta Administered Every 2 Weeks Compared With Epoetin Administered 3 Times Weekly in Patients Treated by Hemodialysis or Peritoneal Dialysis: A Randomized Trial

  • Marian Klinger, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nephrology and Transplantation Medicine, Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to Marian Klinger, MD, Department of Nephrology and Transplantation Medicine, Medical University, 57/59 Traugutta, 50-417 Wroclaw, Poland.
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  • Manual Arias, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Servicio de Nefrologia, Hospital Marques de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain
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  • Vassilis Vargemezis, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nephrology, University Hospital, Alexandroupolis, Greece
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  • Anatole Besarab, MD

      Affiliations

    • Nephrology and Hypertension, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI
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  • Wladyslaw Sulowicz, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Collegium Medicum, Jagiellonian University Department of Nephrology, Cracow, Poland
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  • Trevor Gerntholtz, FCP (SA)

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nephrology, Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, Dumisami Mzamane African Institute of Kidney Diseases, Johannesburg, South Africa
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  • Kazimierz Ciechanowski, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nephrology, Transplantology and Internal Medicine, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
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  • Frank C. Dougherty, MD

      Affiliations

    • F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd, Basel, Switzerland.
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  • Ulrich Beyer, PhD

      Affiliations

    • F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd, Basel, Switzerland.
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  • AMICUS Study Investigators

Received 27 February 2007; accepted 30 August 2007. published online 31 October 2007.

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 Trial registration: www.clinicaltrials.gov; study number: NCT00077597.

 Originally published online as doi:10.1053/j.ajkd.2007.08.013 on October 30, 2007.

PII: S0272-6386(07)01197-3

doi:10.1053/j.ajkd.2007.08.013

American Journal of Kidney Diseases
Volume 50, Issue 6 , Pages 989-1000, December 2007

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