Cyclosporin in the treatment of steroid-responsive and steroid-resistant nephrotic syndrome in adults

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 1988, Pages 728-732

  Maher, E R ^a   Sweny, P ^a   Chappel, M ^a   Varghese, Z ^a   Moorhead, J F ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cyclosporin; Glomerulonephritis; Minimal change; Nephrotic syndrome; Proteinuria

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN A; PREDNISOLONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; MINIMAL CHANGE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CREATININE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORINS; DRUG RESISTANCE; FEMALE; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS, IGA; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; NEPHROSIS, LIPOID; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; PREDNISOLONE; RENIN;

EID: 0024233074     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.ndt.a091745     Document Type: Article

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