Efficacy of cyclosporin in difficult-to-treat idiopathic membranous nephropathy

Nephrology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 51-55

  Alexopoulos, Efstathios ^a   Papagianni, Aikaterini ^a   Economidou, Dominiki ^a   Vainas, Andreas ^a   Memmos, Dimitrios ^a   Papadimitriou, Menelaos ^a  

^a Aristotle University Medical School   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cyclosporin; Membranous nephropathy; Nephrotic syndrome; Prognostic indices

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMBUCIL; CREATININE; CYCLOSPORIN A; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FEMALE; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; REMISSION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036046445     PISSN: 13205358     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1797.2002.00087.x     Document Type: Article

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