Renal and other organ failure caused by germanium intoxication

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 2464-2468

  Lück, Birgitta Elisabeth ^a   Mann, Helmut ^b,d   Melzer, Heinrich ^b   Dunemann, Lothar ^c   Begerow, Jutta ^c  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Dialysezentrum   (Germany)

^c Abteilung Experimentelle Toxikologie   (Germany)

^d NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diabetes mellitus; Germanium; Polyneuropathy; Renal failure; SDS PAGE; SF ICP MS

Indexed keywords

DIMENHYDRINATE; FUROSEMIDE; GERMANIUM; INSULIN; METOCLOPRAMIDE;

ADULT; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; CACHEXIA; CASE REPORT; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG URINE LEVEL; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; KIDNEY FAILURE; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NAUSEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URINALYSIS; VOMITING;

GERMANIUM; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION;

EID: 0141482487     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/14.10.2464     Document Type: Article

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