Plasma renin activity as a marker of renovascular injury in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 613-617

  Mavrikakis, M E ^a,c   Vaiopoulos, G ^a   Papantoniou, B ^a   Antoniades, L G ^a   Kostopoulos, Ch ^a   Papazoglou, S ^a   Lianos, E A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^c ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

glomerulonephritis; renin; rheumatoid arthritis; rheumatoid vasculitis

Indexed keywords

CHLOROQUINE; METHOTREXATE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; RENIN; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HUMAN; MALE; PLASMA RENIN ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENOVASCULAR DISEASE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; VASCULITIS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; FEMALE; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HEMATURIA; HUMANS; JUXTAGLOMERULAR APPARATUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RENIN; RHEUMATOID FACTOR;

EID: 0030442492     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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