Aristolohic acid nephropathy complicating a patient with focal segmental glomerulosclerosis

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1913-1915

  Lo, Stanley Hok King ^a   Mo, Ka Leung ^a   Wong, Kin Shing ^a   Poon, Suet Ping ^a   Chan, Ching Kit ^a   Lai, Chi Kong ^b   Chan, Albert ^b  

^a PAMELA YOUDE NETHERSOLE EASTERN HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

^b PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARISTOLOCHIC ACID; CREATININE; FUROSEMIDE; POTASSIUM; PREDNISOLONE; SODIUM; UREA;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARISTOLOCHIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHINESE MEDICINE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FOCAL GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS; HEMODIALYSIS; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY FAILURE; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; MORTALITY; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; NEPHRITIS; PATHOLOGY;

AGED; ARISTOLOCHIC ACIDS; GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS, FOCAL SEGMENTAL; HUMANS; MALE; NEPHRITIS;

EID: 3242688721     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfh159     Document Type: Article

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