Treatment of membranous nephropathy in patients with renal insufficiency: What regimen to choose?

Journal of Nephrology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 427-429

  Ponticelli, Claudio ^a   Glassock, Richard J ^b  

^a HUMANITAS UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMBUCIL; CORTICOTROPIN; CREATININE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN; CYTOTOXIC AGENT; GLUCOCORTICOID; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; PREDNISOLONE; RITUXIMAB; STEROID;

ANEMIA; BONE MARROW TOXICITY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COLON ADENOCARCINOMA; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; CREATININE CLEARANCE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG FATALITY; EDITORIAL; GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS; HEART INFARCTION; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HUMAN; INFECTION; INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LEUKOPENIA; LOW DRUG DOSE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MEMBRANOUS GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; NEPHROTOXICITY; PROGNOSIS; PROTEINURIA; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SKIN CANCER; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

GLOMERULONEPHRITIS, MEMBRANOUS; HUMANS; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 84877988606     PISSN: 11218428     EISSN: 17246059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5301/jn.5000289     Document Type: Editorial

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