Celiac disease associated membranous nephropathy - A rare cause or coincidence? A case report

Cases Journal

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Prasad, Deepali ^a   Khara, Harshit S ^a   Gupta, Mohit ^a   Sterman, Paul ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ALLOPURINOL; AMLODIPINE; CLONIDINE; CREATININE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; ENDOMYSIUM ANTIBODY; FUROSEMIDE; HEMOGLOBIN; HYDRALAZINE; IRBESARTAN; PREDNISONE;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELIAC DISEASE; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDEMA; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GLUTEN FREE DIET; GOUT; HEART INFARCTION; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTESTINE BIOPSY; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; KIDNEY BIOPSY; LEG SWELLING; MALE; MEMBRANOUS GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; MORTALITY; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; PROTEINURIA; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; URINALYSIS;

EID: 77953421044     PISSN: 17571626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4076/1757-1626-2-7018     Document Type: Article

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