Tip variant of focal segmental glomerulosclerosis: Outcome and comparison to 'not otherwise specified' variant

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2215-2221

  Arias, Luis F ^a   Franco Alzate, Catalina ^a   Rojas, Shirley L ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

focal segmental glomerulosclerosis; glomerular tip lesion; Hispanics; nephrotic syndrome; tip variant

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN; CYTOTOXIC AGENT; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; STEROID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOCAL GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS; FOCAL GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS TIP VARIANT; FOLLOW UP; GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY FIBROSIS; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHROTIC PROTEINURIA; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEINURIA; REMISSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS, FOCAL SEGMENTAL; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROTEINURIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960012664     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfq668     Document Type: Article

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