The patient who had a picnic at a waterfall and presented with haemoptysis and renal failure

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 727-728

  Thiruventhiran, T ^a   Tan, S Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MALAYA MEDICAL CENTRE   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Differential diagnosis; Leptospirosis; Pulmonary haemorrhage; Renal failure; Vasculitis

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; CREATININE; PENICILLIN G;

ADULT; AGGLUTINATION TEST; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CASE REPORT; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEISURE; LEPTOSPIROSIS; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; WATER CONTAMINATION;

EID: 0034056078     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/15.5.727     Document Type: Article

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