LDL adsorption improves the response of focal glomerulosclerosis to corticosteroid therapy

Clinical Nephrology

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-7

  Yokoyama, K ^a,c   Sakai, S ^b   Sigematsu, T ^a   Takemoto, F ^c   Hara, S ^c   Yamada, A ^c   Kawaguchi, Y ^a   Hosoya, T ^a  

^a JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Hibiya Ishikawa Kidney Center   (Japan)

^c TORANOMON HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

FGS; Hyperlipidemia; LDL A; Nephrotic syndrome; Proteinuria

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; CORTICOSTEROID; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; AGE; APHERESIS; ARTICLE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; FOCAL GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LIPID ABSORPTION; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MICROSCOPY; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; PLASMAPHERESIS; PROTEIN URINE LEVEL; PROTEINURIA; STEROID THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADSORPTION; ADULT; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; BLOOD COMPONENT REMOVAL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS, FOCAL SEGMENTAL; HUMANS; KIDNEY; LIPOPROTEINS, LDL; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; PROTEINURIA;

EID: 0031825013     PISSN: 03010430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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