Glomerular disease: Efficacy of corticosteroids in high-risk IgA nephropathy

Nature Reviews Nephrology

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 319-320

  Floege, Jürgen ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; AZATHIOPRINE; BUDESONIDE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

BLOOD PRESSURE; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DRUG EFFECT; EUROPEAN MEDICINES AGENCY; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A NEPHROPATHY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; SHORT SURVEY; FEMALE; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS, IGA; MALE;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; FEMALE; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS, IGA; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MALE;

EID: 84930042747     PISSN: 17595061     EISSN: 1759507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneph.2015.47     Document Type: Short Survey

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