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Preventing contrast-induced nephropathy: problems, challenges and future directions

Contrast-induced nephropathy is an injury to the kidney occurring as a result of exposure to intravascular contrast media. It results in both short- and long-term adverse events including mortality. Since treatment of the injury after it has occurred is ineffective, efforts to prevent the injury are...

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Autor principal: Solomon, Richard
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2684869/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19439063
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7015-7-24