End-stage Kidney Disease Has in Medicine / Internal Medicine — 60yo Man | Nephrology | SMLE Q#10242
SMLE Question #10242
Medicine / Internal Medicine
Nephrology
Objective: OBJ-188
Last updated: February 2026
A 60-year-old man with end-stage kidney disease has been receiving thrice-weekly hemodialysis for 10 years. He asks about the long-term outlook for patients maintained on hemodialysis. Patients on long-term hemodialysis most commonly die from which of the following causes?
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