Increased prevalence of acute interstitial nephritis: More disease or simply more detection?

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 16-18

  Bomback, Andrew S ^a   Markowitz, Glen S ^a  

^a Department of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; CREATININE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ARTICLE; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE REGISTRY; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEMATURIA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS; KIDNEY BIOPSY; LEUKOCYTURIA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY; MALE; NEPHRITIS, INTERSTITIAL;

EID: 84872233928     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfs318     Document Type: Article

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