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Guanase activity in endemic balkan nephropathy

Clinica Chimica Acta, 1971
Abstract Serum guanase activity was studied in 71 patients with renal diseases and in 30 normal individuals. A significant increase of serum guanase activity was recorded in 73.3 per cent of patients with endemic nephropathy. Only in isolated cases of chronic glomerulonephritis and chronic pyelonephritis, guanase activity was shown to be slightly ...
K, Prodanov, A, Astrug
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Clinical features of Balkan endemic nephropathy

Food and Chemical Toxicology, 1992
This paper describes the clinical symptoms and signs of Balkan endemic nephropathy (BEN). The initial asymptomatic period followed by weakness and lassitude during renal insufficiency is emphasized. Non-characteristic lumbar pain may be present and episodes of macrohaematuria may occur.
M, Radonić, Z, Radosević
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Endemic Balkan Nephropathy

1982
Endemic Balkan nephropathy (EBN) is a unique form of chronic interstitial renal disease which is endemic to isolated rural populations of Bulgaria, Romania, and Yugoslavia. The area is confined within a 200-mile radius of Belgrade. The involved villages lie along river valleys in multiple areas of Romania and Yugoslavia where flooding periodically ...
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Some features of Balkan endemic nephropathy

Food and Chemical Toxicology, 1992
This paper presents a brief review of the initial investigative efforts in three countries--"Yugoslavia", Bulgaria and Romania--on Balkan endemic nephropathy. There is now expert agreement that the disease represents an unusual type of chronic interstitial nephropathy of unknown aetiology.
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Groundwater chemistry and the Balkan endemic nephropathy

Environmental Geochemistry and Health, 1991
Until now failure has been a common feature of all attempts to elucidate the aetiology of Balkan endemic nephropathy (BEN), a peculiar kidney disease known to exist only in south-eastern Europe. However, whatever the cause, many epidemiological data point to water as a vehicle of the unknown agent(s).
Z, Radovanovic, W M, Edmunds
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Balkan endemic nephropathy: Still a mysterious disease

European Journal of Epidemiology, 1995
Balkan endemic nephropathy (BEN) is an acquired, environmental, polytopical disease of the entire urinary tract, with long latency. Tubulointerstitial chronic nephritis, urotheliomas of all localities, and renal cell carcinoma occur with a significantly higher frequency in the affected population.
Z, Bozić, V, Duancić, M, Belicza, O, Kraus, I, Skljarov   +4 more
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Balkan endemic nephropathy and associated urothelial cancer

Nature Clinical Practice Urology, 2008
Balkan endemic nephropathy (BEN) is a chronic tubulointerstitial disease described only in some rural parts of southeastern Europe. One of its most peculiar characteristics is a strong association with upper urothelial cancer (UUC). BEN-related UUC has the same histological features as other forms of UUC in general, but is more frequently bilateral ...
Vladisav, Stefanovic, Zoran, Radovanovic
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Renal Transplantation in Patients With Balkan Endemic Nephropathy

Transplantation Proceedings, 2007
Balkan endemic nephropathy (BEN) is a chronic tubulointerstitial disease prevalent in Croatia, Romania, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia. In addition to renal disease, an increased incidence of upper urothelial carcinomas (UUCs) has been observed in the foci of BEN. Carcinoma may occur alone or in combination with BEN.
Bašić-Jukić, Nikolina, Hršak-Puljić, Ivančica, Kes, Petar, Bubić-Filipi, Ljubica, Pasini, Josip, Hudolin, Tvrtko, Kaštelan, Željko, Reiner, Željko, Kordić, Mladenko, Brunetta, Bruna, Jurić, I.   +10 more
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Tamm-horsfall protein determination in Balkan endemic nephropathy

Urological Research, 1988
Data on the excretion of Tamm-Horsfall protein (THP) in subjects living in an area of Balkan endemic nephropathy (BEN) are reported. The study subjects were divided into groups as follows: diseased, suspect, "at risk" and others, according to previously adopted criteria.
Radonić, M., Čvoriščec, Dubravka, Boršo, G., Stavljenić Rukavina, Ana, Čeović, S.   +4 more
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Anemia in Balkan endemic nephropathy.

Kidney international. Supplement, 1992
The severity of anemia in patients at different stages of the evolution of two tubulointerstitial nephropathies, Balkan endemic nephropathy and chronic pyelonephritis, was compared to clarify the previous observations that anemia appears earlier and is more severe in Balkan endemic nephropathy than in other renal diseases.
V, Pavlović-Kentera, L, Djukanović, G K, Clemons, S, Trbojević, N, Dimković, A, Slavković   +5 more
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