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  1. Reliable estimates of the impacts of chronic kidney disease (CKD) stage, with and without cardiovascular disease, on hospital costs are needed to inform health policy.

    Authors: Seamus Kent, Iryna Schlackow, Jingky Lozano-Kühne, Christina Reith, Jonathan Emberson, Richard Haynes, Alastair Gray, Alan Cass, Colin Baigent, Martin J Landray, William Herrington and Borislava Mihaylova
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:65
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  2. Amyloidosis leads to deposition of abnormal protein with beta-pleated sheet structure in specific compartments of the affected organs. The histological localization of these amyloid deposits determines the ove...

    Authors: Ekaterina Castano, Matthew B Palmer, Christine Vigneault, Randy Luciano, Serena Wong and Gilbert Moeckel
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:64
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  3. Sudden cardiac death occurs commonly in the end-stage renal disease population receiving dialysis, with 25% dying of sudden cardiac death over 5 years. Despite this high risk, surprisingly few prospective stud...

    Authors: Rulan S Parekh, Lucy A Meoni, Bernard G Jaar, Stephen M Sozio, Tariq Shafi, Gordon F Tomaselli, Joao A Lima, Larisa G Tereshchenko, Michelle M Estrella and W H Linda Kao
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:63
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  4. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) accelerates vascular stiffening related to age. Arterial stiffness may be evaluated measuring the carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (PWV) or more simply, as recommended by KDOQI,...

    Authors: Igor Salvadé, Sibylle Schätti-Stählin, Eleonora Violetti, Carlo Schönholzer, Claudio Cereghetti, Hugo Zwahlen, Lorenzo Berwert, Michel Burnier and Luca Gabutti
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:62
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  5. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) and systemic inflammation are risk factors for sepsis. While often viewed as a marker of chronic kidney disease, Cystatin C (Cyst-C) may also reflect systemic inflammation. We soug...

    Authors: Thomas Clark Powell, John P Donnelly, Orlando M Gutiérrez, Russell L Griffin, Monika M Safford and Henry E Wang
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:61
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  7. Data regarding the epidemiology of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) and dialysis in sub-Saharan Africa are scarce and knowledge about the spectrum renal disease is very limited. This study is on the profile of p...

    Authors: Marie P Halle, Christian Takongue, Andre P Kengne, François F Kaze and Kathleen B Ngu
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:59
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  8. Hyperuricemia may contribute to renal injury. We do not know whether use of treatments that lower urate reduce the progression of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and cardiovascular disease. We performed a systema...

    Authors: Tahir Kanji, Mandark Gandhi, Catherine M Clase and Robert Yang
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:58
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  9. Multipass hemodialysis (MPHD) is a recently described dialysis modality, involving the use of small volumes of dialysate which are repetitively recycled. Dialysis regimes of 8 hours for six days a week using t...

    Authors: Sunny Eloot, Wim Van Biesen, Mette Axelsen, Griet Glorieux, Robert Smith Pedersen and James Goya Heaf
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:57
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  10. Primary care providers do not routinely follow guidelines for the care of patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Multidisciplinary efforts may improve care for patients with chronic disease. Pharmacist ba...

    Authors: Danielle Cooney, Helen Moon, Yang Liu, Richard Tyler Miller, Adam Perzynski, Brook Watts and Paul E Drawz
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:56
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  11. Small non-coding RNA molecules (miRNAs) play a pivotal role in regulating gene expression in development. miRNAs regulate key processes at the cellular level and thereby influence organismal and tissue develop...

    Authors: Malte P Bartram, Claudia Dafinger, Sandra Habbig, Thomas Benzing, Bernhard Schermer and Roman-Ulrich Müller
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:55
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  12. In western Nicaragua and El Salvador, chronic kidney disease (CKD) is highly prevalent and generally affects young, male, agricultural (usually sugar cane) workers without the established CKD risk factors. It ...

    Authors: Timothy S Laux, Joaquin Barnoya, Douglas R Guerrero and Marcos Rothstein
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:54
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  13. The last decade has witnessed considerable improvement in dialysis technology and changes in clinical management of patients in peritoneal dialysis (PD) with a significant impact on long term clinical outcomes...

    Authors: Gianluigi Zaza, Carlo Rugiu, Alessandra Trubian, Simona Granata, Albino Poli and Antonio Lupo
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:53
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  14. People with kidney failure are often deficient in zinc and selenium, but little is known about the optimal way to correct such deficiency.

    Authors: Marcello Tonelli, Natasha Wiebe, Stephanie Thompson, David Kinniburgh, Scott W Klarenbach, Michael Walsh, Aminu K Bello, Labib Faruque, Catherine Field, Braden J Manns and Brenda R Hemmelgarn
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:52
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  15. Hyperlipidemia is thought to be a major risk factor for the progression of renal diseases in diabetes. Recent studies have shown that lipid profiles are commonly abnormal early on type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D...

    Authors: Liang He, Lili Hao, Xin Fu, Mingshu Huang and Rui Li
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:51
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  16. In view of the prevalence of oxidative stress in chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients, the loss of low-molecular-weight biomolecules by hemodialysis and the antioxidant potential of some uremic solutes that a...

    Authors: Renata P Assis, Juliana FA Castro, Vânia O Gutierres, Carlos A Arcaro, Renata S Brotto, Olga MMF Oliveira, Amanda M Baviera and Iguatemy L Brunetti
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:50
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  17. Disparities in access to kidney transplantation (KT) remain inadequately understood and addressed. Detailed descriptions of patient attitudes may provide insight into mechanisms of disparity. The aims of this ...

    Authors: Megan L Salter, Komal Kumar, Andrew H Law, Natasha Gupta, Kathryn Marks, Kamna Balhara, Mara A McAdams-DeMarco, Laura A Taylor and Dorry L Segev
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:49
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  18. Peritoneal fibrosis is a common complication in patients treated with long-term peritoneal dialysis. The aim of this study was to identify the microRNAs (miRNAs) involved in regulation of peritoneal fibrosis i...

    Authors: Fan Lin, Xu Wu, Huidi Zhang, Xiaohan You, Zhoucang Zhang, Rongrong Shao and Chaoxing Huang
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:48
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  19. Uremic pruritus is a common and deleterious condition among hemodialysis (HD) patients. Central gating of μ/κ opiate circuitry plays an important role in mediating and countering pruritogenic sensation. The ob...

    Authors: Amale Hawi, Harry Alcorn Jr, Jolene Berg, Carey Hines, Howard Hait and Thomas Sciascia
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:47
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  20. Urinary density (UD) has been routinely used for decades as a surrogate marker for urine osmolality (Uosm). We asked if UD can accurately estimate Uosm both in healthy subjects and in different clinical scenarios...

    Authors: Ana Carolina P Souza, Roberto Zatz, Rodrigo B de Oliveira, Mirela A R Santinho, Marcia Ribalta, João E Romão Jr and Rosilene M Elias
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:46
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  21. We examined whether renal resistive index (RI), a simple index of renal vascular resistance, is associated with the presence and severity of anemia, and can predict the future development of anemia in patients...

    Authors: Muneyoshi Tanimura, Kaoru Dohi, Masumi Matsuda, Yuichi Sato, Emiyo Sugiura, Naoto Kumagai, Shiro Nakamori, Tomomi Yamada, Naoki Fujimoto, Takashi Tanigawa, Norikazu Yamada, Mashio Nakamura and Masaaki Ito
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:45
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  22. Diabetic nephropathy (DN) is a major cause of Chronic Kidney Disease and End-Stage Renal Disease throughout the world; however, the reversibility of diabetic nephropathy remains controversial. Endoplasmic reti...

    Authors: Zeng Si Wang, Fei Xiong, Xiao Hang Xie, Dan Chen, Jian Hua Pan and Li Cheng
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:44
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  23. Screening for renal diseases should be performed at the time of diagnosis of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. Despite the high prevalence of HIV/AIDS in Northern Uganda, little is known about the ...

    Authors: Pancras Odongo, Ronald Wanyama, James Henry Obol, Paska Apiyo and Pauline Byakika-Kibwika
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:43
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  24. Reducing dietary sodium has potential to benefit patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Little research is available defining dietary sodium knowledge gaps in patients with pre-dialysis CKD. We designed a...

    Authors: Julie A Wright Nunes, Cheryl A M Anderson, Jane H Greene, Talat Alp Ikizler and Kerri L Cavanaugh
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:42
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  25. Cinacalcet reduces parathyroid hormone (PTH) levels in patients receiving hemodialysis, but no non-experimental studies have evaluated the association between changes in PTH levels following cinacalcet initiat...

    Authors: Wendy L St. Peter, Akeem A Yusuf, Thy Do, Kimberly A Lowe, Jiannong Liu, Kimberly M Nieman, Brian D Bradbury and Allan J Collins
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:41
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  26. Glomerulonephritis is one of the most severe complications of lupus, a systemic disease with multi-organ involvement, with tissue damage produced mainly by complement activation. As a result of this activation...

    Authors: Pilar Nozal, Sofía Garrido, Jorge Martínez-Ara, María Luz Picazo, Laura Yébenes, Rita Álvarez-Doforno, Sheila Pinto, Santiago Rodríguez de Córdoba and Margarita López-Trascasa
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:40
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  27. Patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) due to lupus nephritis (LN-ESRD) may be followed by multiple providers (nephrologists and rheumatologists) and have greater opportunities to receive recommended ESR...

    Authors: Laura C Plantinga, Rachel E Patzer, Cristina Drenkard, Stephen O Pastan, Jason Cobb, William McClellan and Sung Sam Lim
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:39
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  28. Podocyte detachment and apoptosis are two risk factors causing podocyte loss, F-actin rearrangement is involved in detachment and apoptosis. However, the nature of events that promote detachment and apoptosis ...

    Authors: Rufeng Dai, Yi Lin, Haimei Liu, Jia Rao, Yihui Zhai, Xiliang Zha, Xiaoyan Fang and Hong Xu
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:38
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  29. Early preparation for renal replacement therapy (RRT) is recommended for patients with advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD), yet many patients initiate RRT urgently and/or are inadequately prepared.

    Authors: Raquel C Greer, Jessica M Ameling, Kerri L Cavanaugh, Bernard G Jaar, Vanessa Grubbs, Carrie E Andrews, Patti Ephraim, Neil R Powe, Julia Lewis, Ebele Umeukeje, Luis Gimenez, Sam James and L Ebony Boulware
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:37
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  30. Symptom burden in chronic kidney disease (CKD) is poorly understood. To date, the majority of research focuses on single symptoms and there is a lack of suitable multidimensional symptom measures. The purpose ...

    Authors: Hayfa Almutary, Ann Bonner and Clint Douglas
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:36
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  31. Recent studies suggest a causal role for increased plasma uric acid in the progression of chronic renal insufficiency (CRI). However, uric acid also functions as an antioxidant with possible beneficial effects.

    Authors: Venla Kurra, Tuija Vehmas, Arttu Eräranta, Jarkko Jokihaara, Päivi Pirttiniemi, Heikki Ruskoaho, Heikki Tokola, Onni Niemelä, Jukka Mustonen and Ilkka Pörsti
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:35
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  32. It is unknown whether variability of estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate (eGFR) is a risk factor for dialysis or death in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). This study aimed to evaluate variability o...

    Authors: Chin-Lin Tseng, Jean-Philippe Lafrance, Shou-En Lu, Orysya Soroka, Donald R Miller, Miriam Maney and Leonard M Pogach
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:34
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  33. Socioeconomic characteristics may affect the outcomes of patients treated with peritoneal dialysis (PD). There are two major medical insurances in China: the New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS), mainly for r...

    Authors: Zengsi Wang, Yanmin Zhang, Fei Xiong, Hongbo Li, Yanqiong Ding, Yihua Gao, Li Zhao and Sheng Wan
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:33
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  34. The usage of nursing home (NH) services is a marker of frailty among older adults. Although the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) revised the Medical Evidence Report Form CMS-2728 in 2005 to inclu...

    Authors: C Barrett Bowling, Rebecca Zhang, Harold Franch, Yijian Huang, Anna Mirk, William M McClellan, Theodore M Johnson II and Nancy G Kutner
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:32
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  35. Patient registries have great potential for providing data that describe disease burden, treatments, and outcomes; which can be used to improve patient care. Many renal registries exist, but a central reposito...

    Authors: Frank Xiaoqing Liu, Peter Rutherford, Karen Smoyer-Tomic, Sarah Prichard and Suzanne Laplante
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:31
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  36. Acute kidney injury (AKI) is common among intensive care unit (ICU) patients and is associated with high mortality. Type of ICU, category of admission diagnosis, and socioeconomic characteristics of the region...

    Authors: Paulo Roberto Santos and Diego Levi Silveira Monteiro
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:30
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  37. Understanding the regulation of mineral homeostasis and function of the skeleton as buffer for Calcium and Phosphate has regained new interest with introduction of the syndrome “Chronic Kidney Disease-Mineral ...

    Authors: Anders Nordholm, Maria L Mace, Eva Gravesen, Klaus Olgaard and Ewa Lewin
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:29
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  38. Women with chronic kidney disease have an increased risk of maternal and fetal complications in pregnancy. Pre-pregnancy counselling is recommended but the format of the counselling process and the experience ...

    Authors: Kate S Wiles, Kate Bramham, Alina Vais, Kate R Harding, Paramit Chowdhury, Cath J Taylor and Catherine Nelson-Piercy
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:28
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  39. The TNF-like weak inducer of apoptosis (TWEAK) contributes to kidney inflammation producing secretion by renal cells. The present study examined whether the level of TWEAK is associated with histologic finding...

    Authors: Yohei Sasaki, Yoshio Shimizu, Yusuke Suzuki, Satoshi Horikoshi and Yasuhiko Tomino
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:27
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  40. Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (ADPKD) is the most common form of Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) and occurs at a frequency of 1/800 to 1/1000 affecting all ethnic groups worldwide. ADPKD shows s...

    Authors: Hamad Ali, Naser Hussain, Medhat Naim, Mohamed Zayed, Fahd Al-Mulla, Elijah O Kehinde, Lauren M Seaburg, Jamie L Sundsbak and Peter C Harris
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:26
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  41. Cool dialysate is often recommended for prevention of intra-dialytic hypotensive episodes in maintenance hemodialysis (HD) patients. However, its effect on toxin removal is not studied. It is known that inter-...

    Authors: Vaibhav Maheshwari, Titus Lau, Lakshminarayanan Samavedham and Gade P Rangaiah
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:25
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  42. Acute kidney injury (AKI) is associated with poor outcome in critically ill children. While data extracted from retrospective study of pediatric populations demonstrate a high incidence of AKI, the literature ...

    Authors: Rajit K Basu, Ahmad Kaddourah, Tara Terrell, Theresa Mottes, Patricia Arnold, Judd Jacobs, Jennifer Andringa and Stuart L Goldstein
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:24
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  43. The outcome of kidney allograft transplantation is associated with numerous donor-dependent and recipient-dependent immunological and non-immunological factors. Studies on genetic factors affecting the non-imm...

    Authors: Leszek Domański, Karolina Kłoda, Ewa Kwiatkowska, Ewa Borowiecka, Krzysztof Safranow, Arleta Drozd, Andrzej Ciechanowicz and Kazimierz Ciechanowski
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:23
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  44. Autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease (ARPKD) is a rare but frequently severe disorder that is typically characterized by cystic kidneys and congenital hepatic fibrosis but displays pronounced phenotyp...

    Authors: Kathrin Ebner, Markus Feldkoetter, Gema Ariceta, Carsten Bergmann, Reinhard Buettner, Anke Doyon, Ali Duzova, Heike Goebel, Dieter Haffner, Barbara Hero, Bernd Hoppe, Thomas Illig, Augustina Jankauskiene, Norman Klopp, Jens König, Mieczyslaw Litwin…
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:22
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  45. The first aim of the study was to investigate the accuracy and intra-laboratory variation of serum creatinine measurements in clinical laboratories in Flanders. The second purpose was to check the effect of th...

    Authors: Liesbeth Hoste, Kathleen Deiteren, Hans Pottel, Nico Callewaert and Frank Martens
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:21
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  46. Increasing dialysate flow rates (Qd) from 500 to 800 ml/min has been recommended to increase dialysis efficiency. A few publications show that increasing Qd no longer led to an increase in mass transfer area c...

    Authors: Marta Albalate, Rafael Pérez-García, Patricia de Sequera, Elena Corchete, Roberto Alcazar, Mayra Ortega and Marta Puerta
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:20
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  47. Kidney injury molecule-1 (KIM-1) is expressed in tubular epithelial cells after injury and may have a role in the development of renal graft fibrosis. In this study we evaluated the molecular and protein expre...

    Authors: Aline Lima Nogare, Francisco Veríssimo Veronese, Virna Nowotny Carpio, Rosangela Munhoz Montenegro, José Alberto Pedroso, Karla Laís Pegas, Luiz Felipe Gonçalves and Roberto Ceratti Manfro
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:19
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  48. The role of neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) as a diagnostic marker for acute kidney injury (AKI) in sepsis is still debated. We hypothesized that in sepsis, the performance of serum(s) and ur...

    Authors: Jill Vanmassenhove, Griet Glorieux, Norbert Lameire, Eric Hoste, Annemieke Dhondt, Raymond Vanholder and Wim Van Biesen
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:18
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  49. Recent studies have reported an association between periodontal disease and mortality among dialysis patients. Therefore, preventive dental care should be considered very important for this population. In Japa...

    Authors: Masami Yoshioka, Yasuhiko Shirayama, Issei Imoto, Daisuke Hinode, Shizuko Yanagisawa and Yuko Takeuchi
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:17
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  50. Nephrotoxicity due to drugs especially beta lactams and cephalosporins has been well recognised. Cefepime is a fourth-generation cephalosporin that is widely prescribed with few severe adverse reactions report...

    Authors: Kathy Mac, Ruchir Chavada, Sharon Paull, Kenneth Howlin and Jeffrey Wong
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2015 16:15
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