Epidemiology of Acute Kidney Injury in Latin America

Seminars in Nephrology

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 320-329

  Lombardi, Raúl ^a   Yu, Luis ^b   Younes Ibrahim, Mauricio ^c   Schor, Nestor ^b   Burdmann, Emmanuel A ^d  

^a Instituto Medico de Asistencia y Previsión   (Uruguay)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^d Sao Jose do Rio Preto Medical School   (Brazil)

Author keywords

acute kidney injury; acute renal failure; developing countries; epidemiology; Latin America

Indexed keywords

BEE VENOM;

ARTICLE; DENGUE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIARRHEA; ECONOMIC ASPECT; HUMAN; KIDNEY INJURY; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MALARIA; POPULATION RISK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ARTHROPOD VENOMS; DENGUE HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, ACUTE; LATIN AMERICA; LEPTOSPIROSIS; SNAKE VENOMS;

EID: 46749142519     PISSN: 02709295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.semnephrol.2008.04.001     Document Type: Article

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