Lyme disease-associated glomerulonephritis

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 3054-3056

  McCausland, Finnian R ^a   Niedermaier, Sophie ^b   Bijol, Vanesa ^a   Rennke, Helmut G ^a   Choi, Mary E ^a   Forman, John P ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

glomerulonephritis; IgA; Lyme disease; membranoproliferative

Indexed keywords

CEFTRIAXONE; DOXYCYCLINE; LOOP DIURETIC AGENT; STEROID;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; GENERAL ASPECTS OF DISEASE; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPERVOLEMIA; IMMUNE COMPLEX NEPHRITIS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A NEPHROPATHY; KIDNEY BIOPSY; LYME DISEASE; MALE; MEMBRANOPROLIFERATIVE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; RAPIDLY PROGRESSIVE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; RASH; STEROID THERAPY; TICK BITE;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIGEN-ANTIBODY COMPLEX; FEMALE; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HEMATURIA; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LYME DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 80053191110     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfr335     Document Type: Article

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