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Urinary creatinine excretion in children from families with Balkan endemic nephropathy: evidence for genetic predisposition to the disease.
Pathologie-biologie - 1 Jul 2000
Mitic-Zlatkovic M, Cukuranovic R, Lecic N, Stefanovic V
Abstract excerpt
Balkan endemic nephropathy (BEN) is a chronic tubulointerstitial kidney disease prevalent in Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia, Bulgaria and Romania. Genetic studies have supported the genetic predisposition to BEN, and some studies in Bulgaria and in the Kolubara region of Serbia have revealed abnormalities of the urinary tract in up to 46% of children from families with BEN. In the present study, urinary excretion of...
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