Pulmonary-renal syndrome responding to corticosteroids: Consider cholesterol embolization

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1977-1979

  Vacher Coponat, H ^a   Pache, X ^a   Dussol, B ^a   Berland, Y ^a  

^a HÔPITAL SAINTE MARGUERITE   (France)

Author keywords

Acute renal failure; Cholesterol embolization; Corticosteroids; Haemorrhagic alveolitis

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; CORTICOSTEROID;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FAT EMBOLISM; HUMAN; KIDNEY ARTERY EMBOLISM; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; AGED; ANTI-GLOMERULAR BASEMENT MEMBRANE DISEASE; EMBOLISM, CHOLESTEROL; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, ACUTE; MALE; SYNDROME;

EID: 0030821365     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/12.9.1977     Document Type: Article

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