Interpreting and investigating proteinuria

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 344, Issue 7853, 2012, Pages

  Browne, Oliver T ^a   Bhandari, Sunil ^a  

^a HULL AND EAST YORKSHIRE HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ADULT; ALBUMIN CREATININE RATIO; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CASE REPORT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; MENSTRUAL PAIN; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PAIN; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CREATININE RATIO; PROTEIN URINE LEVEL; PROTEINURIA; RENAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; URINALYSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ALBUMINURIA; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; CREATININE; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PROTEINURIA;

EID: 84859967529     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.e2339     Document Type: Article

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