Acute renal failure after a holiday in the tropics

Clinical Nephrology

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 468-471

  Guron, G ^a   Holmdahl, J ^a   Dotevall, L ^b  

^a Institute of Medicine   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Acute tubulointerstitial nephritis; Dengue fever; Leptospirosis; Travel medicine; Tropical medicine

Indexed keywords

AMINOTRANSFERASE; CREATININE;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ANURIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DENGUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS ADMINISTRATION; LABORATORY TEST; LEISURE; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MALARIA; MYALGIA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; SEROLOGY; SOUTHEAST ASIA; THAILAND; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TROPICS;

EID: 33845381946     PISSN: 03010430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5414/cnp66468     Document Type: Article

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