Epidemiology of renal disease in Romania: A 10 year review of two regional renal biopsy databases

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 419-424

  Covic, Adrian ^a   Schiller, Adalbert ^b   Volovat, Carmen ^a   Gluhovschi, Gheorghe ^b   Gusbeth Tatomir, Paul ^a   Petrica, Ligia ^b   Caruntu, Irina Draga ^a   Bozdog, Gheorghe ^b   Velciov, Silvia ^b   Trandafirescu, Virginia ^b   Bob, Flaviu ^b   Gluhovschi, Cristina ^b  

^a C I PARHON NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENDOCRINOLOGY   (Romania)

^b Dialysis and Transplantation Center   (Romania)

Author keywords

Chronic kidney disease; Parenchymal diseases; Renal biopsy; Renal biopsy registry

Indexed keywords

CREATININE;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; AGED; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; ECHOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; EUROPE; FEMALE; FOCAL GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HEMATURIA; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY INFECTION; MALE; MEMBRANOPROLIFERATIVE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; MINIMAL CHANGE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; MOLDOVA; NEPHRITIS; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; POPULATION RESEARCH; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; RAPIDLY PROGRESSIVE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; REGIONALIZATION; RENOVASCULAR DISEASE; REVIEW; ROMANIA;

EID: 31544481384     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfi207     Document Type: Review

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