Significance of technetium-99m human serum albumin diethylenetriamine pentaacetic acid scintigraphy in patients with nephrotic syndrome.

It is thought that a large amount of albumin leaking from the glomerulus in nephrotic syndrome (NS) is reabsorbed at the proximal tubule and catabolized. Therefore, it is possible the final quantity of urinary protein does not always reflect the amount of leakage of protein from the glomerulus. We e...

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Main Authors: Tsuyoshi Takashima, Tomoya Kishi, Koji Onozawa, Shuichi Rikitake, Motoaki Miyazono, Takateru Otsuka, Hiroyuki Irie, Ryuichi Iwakiri, Kazuma Fujimoto, Yuji Ikeda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4393027?pdf=render