Acute Kidney Injury During Warfarin Therapy Associated With Obstructive Tubular Red Blood Cell Casts: A Report of 9 Cases

American Journal of Kidney Diseases

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1121-1126

  Brodsky, Sergey V ^a,b   Satoskar, Anjali ^a   Chen, Jun ^b   Nadasdy, Gyongyi ^a   Eagen, Jeremiah W ^c   Hamirani, Mirza ^d   Hebert, Lee ^a   Calomeni, Edward ^a   Nadasdy, Tibor ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c Northeast Pennsylvania Nephrology Associates   (United States)

^d St Joseph's Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

acute kidney injury; glomerular hemorrhage; occlusive red blood cell (RBC) casts; renal pathology; Warfarin

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; AMLODIPINE; CITALOPRAM; CREATININE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DILTIAZEM; DONEPEZIL; FOLIC ACID; FUROSEMIDE; INSULIN; METOPROLOL; OMEPRAZOLE; PENTOXIFYLLINE; PREDNISONE; PROPRANOLOL DERIVATIVE; WARFARIN;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BOWMAN CAPSULE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG OVERDOSE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS BASEMENT MEMBRANE; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY HEMORRHAGE; KIDNEY INJURY; KIDNEY TUBULE DAMAGE; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTICOAGULANTS; BIOPSY; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; HEMATURIA; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY FAILURE, ACUTE; KIDNEY TUBULES, PROXIMAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; THROMBOSIS; WARFARIN;

EID: 70449658993     PISSN: 02726386     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2009.04.024     Document Type: Article

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