Biopsy proven interstitial nephritis following treatment with vancomycin: A case report

Connecticut Medicine

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 139-141

  Salazar, Maria Nieva ^a   Matthews, Marina ^a   Posadas, Aurora ^a   Mohsin Ehsan, And ^a   Graeber, Charles ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^b NEW BRITAIN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; GENTAMICIN; PREDNISONE; VANCOMYCIN;

ARTICLE; BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOMYELITIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; BIOPSY; GENTAMICINS; HUMANS; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHRITIS, INTERSTITIAL; OSTEOMYELITIS; PREDNISONE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; VANCOMYCIN;

EID: 77949835002     PISSN: 00106178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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