Multicenter trial of L-carnitine in maintenance hemodialysis patients. II. Clinical and biochemical effects

Kidney International

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 1990, Pages 912-918

  Ahmad, Suhail ^a   Robertson, H Thomas ^b   Golper, Thomas A ^b   Wolfson, Marsha ^b   Kurtin, Paul ^b   Katz, Lois A ^b   Hirschberg, Raimund ^b   Nicora, Robert ^b   Ashbrook, Donald W ^b   Kopple, Joel D ^b  

^a Scribner Kidney Center   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARNITINE; CREATININE; PHOSPHORUS; UREA;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MUSCLE CRAMP; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CARNITINE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; MUSCLE CRAMP; MUSCLES; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; RENAL DIALYSIS;

EID: 0025152162     PISSN: 00852538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ki.1990.290     Document Type: Article

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