Seizures and renal failure: Is there a link?

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2855-2857

  Canavese, Caterina ^a   Morellini, Veronica ^a   Lazzarich, Elisa ^a   Brustia, Maddalena ^a   Quaglia, Marco ^a   Stratta, Piero ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BICARBONATE; CALCIUM; POTASSIUM;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; ARM DISEASE; ARTICLE; ASTHENIA; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; FEMALE; FLUID THERAPY; HUMAN; HYPERKALEMIA; HYPOCALCEMIA; HYPOVOLEMIA; KIDNEY HYPERTROPHY; LIMB PAIN; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; NEPHROSCLEROSIS; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY ALKALOSIS; SEIZURE; TACHYPNEA;

AGED; ALKALOSIS; BICARBONATES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; SEIZURES;

EID: 27944446933     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfi140     Document Type: Article

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