Rapidly progressive renal failure associated with successful pharmacotherapy for obesity
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Rapidly progressive renal failure associated with successful pharmacotherapy for obesity.
Reply Sir, We thank Drs Calo and Davis for highlighting their interesting studies. We were, in fact, aware of these studies and have used them as background in grant applications in the broader context. Our paper was not intended to be a review of the literature, since this area, we believe, is still evolving. It is always a subjective decision which references to include or not in any given pu...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0931-0509,1460-2385
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfl684