Etiologic factors in renovascular fibromuscular dysplasia. A case-control study.
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Etiologic factors in renovascular fibromuscular dysplasia. A case-control study.
The role of several factors that have been suggested as being of etiologic importance in renovascular fibromuscular dysplasia was examined in a case-control study of 33 patients with angiographically demonstrated fibromuscular dysplasia and 61 renal transplant donor control subjects with normal renal arteries. The factors studied included use of oral contraceptive agents or markers of sex hormo...
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عنوان ژورنال: Hypertension
سال: 1989
ISSN: 0194-911X,1524-4563
DOI: 10.1161/01.hyp.14.5.472