Small dose oral corticosteriod treatment rapidly improved renal function in patient with an acute aggravation of chronic renal failure due to cholesterol embolism [6]

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 872-873

  Nakahama, Hajime ^a   Sakaguchi, Katsuhiko ^b  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

^b SUMITOMO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; CORTICOSTEROID; CREATININE; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; EMBOLISM; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOCOMPLEMENTEMIA; INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION; INTRAVASCULAR CATHETER; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LETTER; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0035081065     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/16.4.872     Document Type: Letter

References (5)

1. Atheroembolic renal disease
2. Redefining the incidence of clinically detectable atheroembolism
3. Incidence of atheroembolic renal failure after coronary angiography
4. Cholesterol embolism: Experience with 22 histologically proven cases
5. Supportive treatment improves survival in multivisceral cholesterol embolism