An unusual cause of nephrotic syndrome and hypertension in a young woman

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 2026-2029

  Álvarez, Luis ^a   Ortega, Elisa ^a   Rocamora, Natalia ^a   Tormo, Ana ^a   Gil, Carmen María ^a   Trigueros, Miguel ^a   Rivera, Francisco ^b  

^a HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO DE ALICANTE   (Spain)

^b Hospital Alarcos   (Spain)

Author keywords

Hydatidiform mole; Hypertension; Nephrotic syndrome; Pre eclamptic nephropathy

Indexed keywords

BRONCHODILATING AGENT; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; FERROUS SULFATE; HEMOGLOBIN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ABDOMINAL MASS; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ANEMIA; ANOREXIA; ARM EDEMA; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; ASTHENIA; ASTHMA; BACKACHE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; CHORION VILLUS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; EDEMA; FACE EDEMA; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYDATIDIFORM MOLE; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY BIOPSY; LABORATORY TEST; LEG EDEMA; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; OVARY CARCINOMA; PALLOR; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREGNANCY TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TROPHOBLASTIC DISEASE; URINALYSIS; UTERINE CERVIX DILATATION; PATHOLOGY; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; RADIOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDATIDIFORM MOLE; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0036842147     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/17.11.2026     Document Type: Article

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