Assessment of Retinal Microangiopathy in Patients with Balkan Endemic Nephropathy Using Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography—A Pilot Study [PDF]
MedicinaBackground and Objectives: It is well known that alterations in microvascular structure and function contribute to the development of ocular, renal, and cardiovascular diseases.
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Pro- and Antiapoptotic Markers in Upper Tract Urothelial Carcinoma Associated with Balkan Endemic Nephropathy [PDF]
The Scientific World Journal, 2011 The role of aristolochic acid in the etiology of Balkan endemic nephropathy (BEN) and associated upper-tract urothelial carcinoma (UTUC) has been recently confirmed.
Ljubinka Jankovic-Velickovic +7 more
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Correction: Dominant-Negative Effect of a Missense Variant in the TASK-2 (KCNK5) K+ Channel Associated with Balkan Endemic Nephropathy. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 [This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0156456.].
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The role of a parental history of Balkan endemic nephropathy in the occurrence of BEN: a prospective study [PDF]
International Journal of Nephrology and Renovascular Disease, 2012 Kesinee Hanjangsit1, Wilfried Karmaus1, Plamen Dimitrov2, Hongmei Zhang1, Jim Burch1, Svetla Tzolova2, Vecihi Batuman3,41Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA; 2National Center of Public Health ...
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Comparative 1H NMR Metabolomic Urinalysis of People Diagnosed with Balkan Endemic Nephropathy, and Healthy Subjects, in Romania and Bulgaria: A Pilot Study [PDF]
Toxins, 2011 1H NMR spectroscopy of urine has been applied to exploring metabolomic differences between people diagnosed with Balkan endemic nephropathy (BEN), and treated by haemodialysis, and those without overt renal disease in Romania and Bulgaria.
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GPX3 rs8177412 Polymorphism Modifies Risk of Upper Urothelial Tumors in Patients with Balkan Endemic Nephropathy [PDF]
Medicina, 2023 Current data suggest that aristolochic acid (AA) exposure is a putative cause of Balkan endemic nephropathy (BEN), a chronic kidney disease strongly associated with upper tract urothelial carcinoma.
Zana Radic Savic +11 more
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Arterial Stiffness in Balkan Endemic Nephropathy, an Environmental Form of Aristolochic Acid Nephropathy [PDF]
Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2018 Balkan endemic nephropathy (BEN), an environmental form of aristolochic acid nephropathy is characterized with later onset and milder forms of hypertension (HT). Thus, we hypothesized that arterial stiffness progresses slower in BEN patients resulting in
Vedran Premužić +8 more
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Incidence and predictive factors of Balkan Endemic Nephropathy: A longitudinal study
Saudi Journal of Kidney Diseases and Transplantation, 2014 Balkan endemic nephropathy (BEN) is a chronic kidney disease that progresses slowly. There are no known clinical markers to identify an early disease development.
Kesinee Hanjangsit +6 more
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Structural and functional characteristics of urinary tract in offspring of Balkan endemic nephropathy patients [PDF]
Srpski Arhiv za Celokupno Lekarstvo, 2010 Introduction. Balkan endemic nephropathy (BEN) is a familial chronic progressive tubulointerstitial disease of unknown aetiology that occurs with high prevalence in endemic rural environments of Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Bulgaria and ...
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Early Detection of Balkan Endemic Nephropathy in Bosanska Posavina [PDF]
Biomolecules & Biomedicine, 2010 Balkan endemic nephropathy (BEN) is a chronic tubulointersticial nephropathy that is diagnosed in a few agrarian regions of Balkan. Even tough numerous dilemmas and conflicting opinions regarding BEN etiology are encountered in literature, prevailing ...
Enisa Mešić
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