Therapy Insight: What nephrologists need to know about primary vesicoureteral reflux

Nature Clinical Practice Nephrology

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 551-563

  Gargollo, Patricio C ^a,b   Diamond, David A ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibiotic prophylaxis; Reflux nephropathy; Urinary tract infection; Vesicoureteral reflux

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UROPLAKIN;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY; FOLLOW UP; GENE MUTATION; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; HYDRONEPHROSIS; IMAGING; INCIDENCE; INHERITANCE; NEPHROLOGIST; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGRAPHY; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VESICOURETERAL REFLUX;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; CICATRIX; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; ENDOSCOPY; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; NEPHROLOGY; PEDIATRICS; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; UROLOGY; VESICO-URETERAL REFLUX;

EID: 34748883030     PISSN: 17458323     EISSN: 17458331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpneph0610     Document Type: Review

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