| Literature DB >> 8709086 |
D A Collins1, S Patel, J B Eastwood, B E Bourke.
Abstract
Severe hypertension and rapidly progressive acute renal failure is a well recognized complication of scleroderma, often referred to as the renal crisis, and widely thought to cause irreversible deterioration in renal function. With the advent of angiotensin-converting-enzyme inhibitors (ACE-I) the outlook for patients with this condition has dramatically improved. We report here one such patient.Entities:
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Year: 1996 PMID： 8709086 PMCID： PMC1295644 DOI： 10.1177/014107689608900114
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J R Soc Med ISSN： 0141-0768 Impact factor: 18.000