Dialysis encephalopathy syndrome (medical condition): A progressive brain disease that occurs in some patients who undergo chronic hemodialysis. Aluminium intoxication is believed to play a role in the disease.
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Dialysis encephalopathy syndrome: a progressive, often fatal, diffuse encephalopathy occurring in a few patients on chronic hemodialysis; to be differentiated from the relatively acute, self-limited dialysis disequilibrium syndrome. SYN: dialysis dementia.
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