Acute renal failure due to rifampicin: A study of 25 patients

American Journal of Kidney Diseases

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 690-696

  Muthukumar, Thangamani ^a   Jayakumar, Matcha ^a   Fernando, Edwin M ^a   Muthusethupathi, Muthayeepalayam A ^a  

^a MADRAS MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Acute interstitial nephritis (AIN); Acute tubular necrosis (ATN); Crescentic glomerulonephritis; Leprosy; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

RIFAMPICIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE HEPATITIS; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CHILL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FEVER; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HEMATURIA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS; JAUNDICE; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MYALGIA; OLIGURIA; PROGNOSIS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VOMITING;

EID: 0036787449     PISSN: 02726386     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/ajkd.2002.35675     Document Type: Article

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