Renal vasculitis in Japan and the UK - Are there differences in epidemiology and clinical phenotype?

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 3928-3931

  Watts, Richard A ^a   Scott, David G I ^b   Jayne, David R W ^c   Ito Ihara, Toshiko ^d,e   Muso, Eri ^f   Fujimoto, Shouichi ^g   Harabuchi, Yasuki ^h   Kobayashi, Shigeto ⁱ   Suzuki, Kazuo ^j,k   Hashimoto, Hiroshi ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b NORFOLK AND NORWICH UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f Kitano Hospital   (Japan)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

^h ASAHIKAWA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

ⁱ JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^j NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^k CHIBA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

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Author keywords

ANCA; Epidemiology; Microscopic polyangiitis; Vasculitis; Wegener's granulomatosis

Indexed keywords

NEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHURG STRAUSS SYNDROME; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSCOPIC POLYANGIITIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL VASCULITIS; RENOVASCULAR DISEASE; UNITED KINGDOM; VASCULITIS; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

AGED; ANTIBODIES, ANTINEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC; CHURG-STRAUSS SYNDROME; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; JAPAN; KIDNEY DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHENOTYPE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VASCULITIS; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

EID: 56749092230     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfn354     Document Type: Article

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