Multiple venous thrombosis and massive pulmonary artery thrombus as the presenting features of steroid-responsive nephrotic syndrome

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1306-1309

  Peces, Ramón ^a   Pobes, Alfonso ^a   Rodríguez, Minerva ^a   Navascués, Rafael A ^a   Ortega, Francisco ^a   Alvarez Grande, Jaime ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO CENTRAL DE ASTURIAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Coagulation; Inferior vena cava thrombosis; Minimal change disease; Nephrotic syndrome; Pulmonary artery thrombus; Vein thrombosis

Indexed keywords

METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; MALE; MINIMAL CHANGE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY ARTERY DISEASE; THROMBOSIS; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

EID: 0032892467     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/14.5.1306     Document Type: Article

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