Two cases of Weil's disease with acute renal failure in the central Tokyo metropolitan area

Clinical Nephrology

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 76-80

  Inoue, T ^a   Yoshikawa, K ^b   Tada, M ^a   Nakamura, T ^c   Hinoshita, F ^a,d  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Kawashima Hospital   (Japan)

^c YOKOHAMA CITY MINATO RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute renal failure; Hemodialysis; Leptospirosis; Metropolis; Weil's disease

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; BILIRUBIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CLINDAMYCIN; CREATININE; DORIPENEM; PANIPENEM PLUS BETAMIPRON; STREPTOMYCIN SULFATE; SULTAMICILLIN;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONTINUOUS HEMODIAFILTRATION; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIARRHEA; FATIGUE; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; JAPANESE; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SEPTIC SHOCK; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VOMITING;

EID: 74049113362     PISSN: 03010430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5414/CNP73076     Document Type: Article

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