Heart Attack and Kidney Attack: Evolution of Lay and Clinical Terms for Spontaneous, Acute Organ Injury Syndromes
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Kidney attack: overdiagnosis of acute kidney injury or comprehensive definition of acute kidney syndromes?
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Molecular Biomarkers & Diagnosis
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2155-9929
DOI: 10.4172/2155-9929.1000164