Another role for nephrologists in disaster medicine

Clinical and Experimental Nephrology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 153-154

  Fukagawa, Masafumi ^a   Kim, Jong Il ^b   Fujii, Hideki ^c  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Chibune Hospital   (Japan)

^c KOBE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RENIN;

BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; DISASTER MEDICINE; EARTHQUAKE; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; HYPERCOAGULABILITY; HYPERTENSION; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NEPHROLOGIST; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; PATIENT CARE; RENIN RELEASE; STRESS; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; TSUNAMI; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; DISASTER; FEMALE; MALE; NOTE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING, AMBULATORY; DISASTERS; EARTHQUAKES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY, CHRONIC;

EID: 84899666116     PISSN: 13421751     EISSN: 14377799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10157-013-0773-0     Document Type: Editorial

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