Potential therapeutic effect of simvastatin on progressive renal failure and nephrotic-range proteinuria caused by renal cholesterol embolism

American Journal of the Medical Sciences

Volumn 322, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 50-52

  Yonemura, Katsuhiko ^a   Ikegaya, Naoki ^b   Fujigaki, Yoshihide ^a   Suzuki, Hiroyuki ^a   Togawa, Akashi ^a   Hishida, Akira ^a  

^a HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute renal failure; Atheroembolism; Cholesterol crystal embolism; Nephrotic syndrome; Simvastatin

Indexed keywords

SIMVASTATIN;

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION; JAPAN; KIDNEY ARTERY EMBOLISM; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIVEDO RETICULARIS; MALE; NEPHROSIS; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PROTEINURIA; RETINA ARTERY OCCLUSION; SYMPTOM; TISSUE NECROSIS;

EID: 0034916237     PISSN: 00029629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000441-200107000-00010     Document Type: Article

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