Tools to detect and modify sickle cell nephropathy.
Placement of the development of a sickle cell nephropathy in a time/event line is helped by better measures of glomerular filtration rate, tubular dysfunction, and proteinuria. Preventing or slowing the nephropathy can improve the outcome of this complication of the devastating sickle cell disease.
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Department of Pediatrics, Division of Nephrology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas 66160-7330, USA. jscheinman@kumc.edu
D000755:Anemia, Sickle Cell / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy