MPGN Secondary to Lyme Disease

American Journal of Kidney Diseases

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 544-551

  Kirmizis, Dimitrios ^a   Efstratiadis, Georgios ^b   Economidou, Dominiki ^b   Diza Mataftsi, Evdoxia ^b   Leontsini, Maria ^b   Memmos, Dimitrios ^b  

^a Aristotle University and Hippokration General Hospital   (Greece)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Borrelia burgdorferi; Lyme disease; Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis (MPGN); Postinfection glomerulonephritis

Indexed keywords

CEFOTAXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CLARITHROMYCIN; COMPLEMENT; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3; CORTICOSTEROID; CREATININE; CRYOGLOBULIN; GALLIUM; HEMOGLOBIN; IMIPENEM; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; AGED; ALLERGIC GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY BIOPSY; LYME DISEASE; MALE; MEMBRANOPROLIFERATIVE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; MICROSCOPY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PERICARDITIS; PLASMAPHERESIS; SEROLOGY;

EID: 1542377644     PISSN: 02726386     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2003.11.014     Document Type: Article

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