Article
[Endemic nephropathy in Croatia].
Lijecnicki vjesnik - 1 Jan 2000
Jelaković Bojan, Dika Živka, Karanović Sandra, Lela Ivana Vuković
Abstract excerpt
Endemic nephropathy (EN) is a chronic tubulointerstitial aristolochic acid nephropathy (AAN) affecting residents of the certain villages in the valleys of the major tributaries of the Danube river in the south-east Europe including Croatia. Patients with EN have a significantly higher incidence of transitional cell carcinoma of the ureter than the general population. A-T transversion of the p53 gene is now...
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