Incidence of primary glomerulonephritis in a large North-Eastern Italian area: A 13-year renal biopsy study

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 367-372

  Zaza, Gianluigi ^a   Bernich, Patrizia ^a   Lupo, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

epidemiology; glomerulonephritis; kidney biopsy; registries

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE REGISTRY; DISEASES; EXTRACAPILLARY PROLIFERATIVE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; FEMALE; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A NEPHROPATHY; INCIDENCE; ITALY; KIDNEY BIOPSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMAL CHANGE DISEASE; NEPHRITIS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIMARY GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY; FEMALE; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS, IGA; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; ITALY; KIDNEY; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHROSIS, LIPOID; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84874512648     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfs437     Document Type: Article

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