Glomerular immune deposits are associated with increased proteinuria in patients with ANCA-associated crescentic nephritis

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 524-531

  Neumann, Irmgard ^a   Regele, Heinz ^b   Kain, Renate ^b   Birck, Rainer ^a   Meisl, Franz Thomas ^a  

^a Wilhelminenspital ^*  (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Immune deposits; Necrotizing crescentic glomerulonephritis; Pauci immune; Renal histology

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; NEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GLOMERULUS BASEMENT MEMBRANE; GROUPS BY AGE; GROUPS BY SEX; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE COMPLEX DEPOSITION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY FUNCTION; MESANGIUM; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; RAPIDLY PROGRESSIVE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULITIS; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBODIES, ANTINEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC; FEMALE; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HUMANS; KIDNEY GLOMERULUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROTEINURIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VASCULITIS; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

EID: 0347721766     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/18.3.524     Document Type: Article

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