Acute interstitial nephritis in a case of Ascaris lumbricoides infection

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1625-1628

  Jung, Oliver ^a   Ditting, Tilmann ^a   Gröne, Hermann Josef ^b   Geiger, Helmut ^a   Hauser, Ingeborg A ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Deutches Krebsforschungszentrum ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Acute interstitial nephritis; Ascaris lumbricoides; Parasitosis

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; MEBENDAZOLE; PREDNISONE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; CASE REPORT; EOSINOPHILIA; HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY FUNCTION TEST; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; PARASITOSIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND; URINALYSIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; ANTINEMATODAL AGENTS; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; CREATININE; HUMANS; KIDNEY GLOMERULUS; MALE; MEBENDAZOLE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHRITIS, INTERSTITIAL;

EID: 2942748322     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfh183     Document Type: Article

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