Acute kidney injury in scrub typhus

Clinical and Experimental Nephrology

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 725-729

  Attur, Ravindra Prabhu ^a   Kuppasamy, Sujatha ^a   Bairy, Manohar ^a   Nagaraju, Shankar Prasad ^a   Pammidi, Nageswara Reddy ^a   Kamath, Veena ^a   Kamath, Asha ^a   Rao, Lakshmi ^a   Bairy, Indira ^b  

^a MANIPAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b KASTURBA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Acute interstitial nephritis; Acute kidney injury; Rickettsioses; RIFLE criteria; Scrub typhus; Tsutsugamushi

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CREATINE KINASE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ACUTE KIDNEY TUBULE NECROSIS; ADULT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CELL INFILTRATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EOSINOPHIL; FATALITY; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HEMATURIA; HEMODIALYSIS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENCE; INTENSIVE CARE; INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEINURIA; PYURIA; RISK, INJURY, FAILURE, LOSS, END STAGE KIDNEY DISEASE CRITERIA; SCRUB TYPHUS; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; URINALYSIS;

ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY; ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CREATINE KINASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INDIA; KIDNEY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; OLIGURIA; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RENAL DIALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SCRUB TYPHUS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TERTIARY CARE CENTERS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84885913711     PISSN: 13421751     EISSN: 14377799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10157-012-0753-9     Document Type: Article

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