Low glomerular density is a risk factor for progression in idiopathic membranous nephropathy

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3555-3560

  Tsuboi, Nobuo ^a   Kawamura, Tetsuya ^a   Miyazaki, Yoichi ^a   Utsunomiya, Yasunori ^a   Hosoya, Tatsuo ^a  

^a JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

glomerular density; membranous nephropathy; remission; renal biopsy; renal outcome

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INDEPENDENT VARIABLE; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY CORTEX SLICE; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LOW GLOMERULAR DENSITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMBRANOUS GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEINURIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; UROGENITAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS, MEMBRANOUS; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY FUNCTION TESTS; KIDNEY GLOMERULUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROTEINURIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80155172593     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfr399     Document Type: Article

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