Are patients with moderate renal failure at risk for developing nephrogenic systemic fibrosis? [2]

Radiology

Volumn 244, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 930-931

  Saab, Georges ^a   Abu Alfa, Ali ^b  

^a University of Missouri   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM;

CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LETTER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; NEPHROGENIC FIBROSING DERMOPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RESTRICTION; RISK FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; GADOLINIUM DTPA; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEGLUMINE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; RISK FACTORS; SKIN; SKIN DISEASES;

EID: 34548080152     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2443070351     Document Type: Letter

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