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Clinical NephrotoxinsRenal Injury from Drugs and Chemicals, 2008 Balkan (or endemic) nephropathy is a chronic tubulointerstitial disease of unknown, presumably exotoxic etiology. It has been shown to exist only in some parts of the southeastern Europe. While there have been many meetings and papers [1, 2] concerning both cause and treatment of Balkan nephropathy, sociopolitical turmoil, including wars, and ...
DjukanoviĆ L, RadovanoviĆ Z.
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Balkan Endemic Nephropathy and the Causative Role of Aristolochic Acid [PDF]
Seminars in Nephrology, 2019 Summary: Balkan endemic nephropathy is a chronic tubulointerstitial disease with insidious onset, slowly progressing to end-stage renal disease and frequently associated with urothelial carcinoma of the upper urinary tract (UTUC).
Bojan Jelaković +2 more
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Balkan endemic nephropathy: Role of ochratoxins A through biomarkers [PDF]
Molecular Nutrition and Food Research, 2006 Several studies implicated mycotoxins, in endemic kidney disease geographically limited to Balkan region (Balkan endemic nephropathy (BEN)). In Bulgaria, much higher prevalence of ochratoxin A (OTA), exceeding 2 lg/L, was observed in the blood of ...
Annie Pfohl-Leszkowicz
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p53 mutations as fingerprints for aristolochic acid: an environmental carcinogen in endemic (Balkan) nephropathy. [PDF]
Mutat Res, 2009 The activation of protooncogenes and inactivation of tumor suppressor genes are considered to be the main molecular events in the multistep process of carcinogenesis.
Slade N +4 more
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Consensus statement on screening, diagnosis, classification and treatment of endemic (Balkan) nephropathy. [PDF]
Nephrol Dial Transplant, 2014 Currently used diagnostic criteria in different endemic (Balkan) nephropathy (EN) centers involve different combinations of parameters, various cut-off values and many of them are not in agreement with proposed international guidelines.
Jelaković B +35 more
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Metabolic activation of carcinogenic aristolochic acid, a risk factor for Balkan endemic nephropathy [PDF]
Mutation Research - Reviews in Mutation Research, 2008 Aristolochic acid (AA), a naturally occurring nephrotoxin and carcinogen, is associated with tumor development in patients suffering from Chinese herbs nephropathy (now termed aristolochic acid nephropathy, AAN) and may also be a cause for the ...
Marie Stiborova +2 more
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Urinary neopterin concentrations in patients with Balkan endemic nephropathy (BEN)
Kidney International, 2003 Urinary neopterin concentrations in patients with Balkan endemic nephropathy (BEN).BackgroundBalkan endemic nephropathy (BEN) is of great clinical importance in restricted areas of Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, Herzegovina, and Romania, since the ...
Draga Toncheva +2 more
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Chinese herbs nephropathy: a clue to Balkan endemic nephropathy?
Kidney International, 1994 Rapidly progressive interstitial renal fibrosis has recently been reported in young women who have been on a slimming regimen including Chinese herbs.
Jadoul, Michel +5 more
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, 2018 Balkan endemic nephropathy (BEN) is a chronic, slowly progressive tubulointerstitial nephritis, with familial clustering, occurring in several endemic rural regions in countries of the Balkan Peninsula.
Adalbert Schiller, Milan Radović
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Aristolochic acid and the etiology of endemic (Balkan) nephropathy. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2007 Endemic (Balkan) nephropathy (EN), a devastating renal disease affecting men and women living in rural areas of Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania, and Serbia, is characterized by its insidious onset, invariable progression to chronic renal failure and a
Grollman AP +17 more
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