Consensus statement on screening, diagnosis, classification and treatment of endemic (Balkan) nephropathy
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Consensus statement on screening, diagnosis, classification and treatment of endemic (Balkan) nephropathy.
Currently used diagnostic criteria in different endemic (Balkan) nephropathy (EN) centers involve different combinations of parameters, various cut-off values and many of them are not in agreement with proposed international guidelines. Leaders of EN centers began to address these problems at scientific meetings, and this paper is the outgrowth of those discussions. The main aim is to provide r...
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Currently used diagnostic criteria in different endemic (Balkan) nephropathy (EN) centers involve different combinations of parameters, various cut-off values and many of them are not in agreement with proposed international guidelines. Leaders of EN centers began to address these problems at scientific meetings, and this paper is the outgrowth of those discussions. The main aim is to provide r...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0931-0509,1460-2385
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gft384