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Descriptor English: Balkan Nephropathy
Descriptor Spanish: Nefropatía de los Balcanes
Descriptor nefropatía de los Balcanes
Entry term(s) nefropatía endémica de los Balcanes
Scope note: Enfermedad tubulointersticial de etiología desconocida que se presenta en un área geográfica limitada por Rumania, Bulgaria, y Yugoslavia.
Descriptor Portuguese: Nefropatia dos Bálcãs
Descriptor French: Néphropathie endémique des Balkans
Entry term(s): Balkan Endemic Nephropathy
Danubian Endemic Familial Nephropathy
Endemic Nephropathy, Balkan
Nephropathy, Balkan
Nephropathy, Balkan Endemic
Tree number(s): C12.050.351.968.419.570.643.150
C12.200.777.419.570.643.150
C12.950.419.570.643.150
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001449
Scope note: A form of chronic interstitial nephritis that is endemic to limited areas of BULGARIA, the former YUGOSLAVIA, and ROMANIA. It is characterized by a progressive shrinking of the KIDNEYS that is often associated with uroepithelial tumors.
Annotation: do not specify geography unless particularly discussed
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
CN congenital
CO complications
DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EH ethnology
EM embryology
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
ET etiology
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
RT radiotherapy
SU surgery
TH therapy
UR urine
VE veterinary
VI virology
Previous Indexing: Kidney Diseases (1966-1981)
Nephritis (1966-1975)
Nephritis, Interstitial (1969-1981)
Pyelonephritis (1966-1969)
Public MeSH Note: 1991; see NEPHRITIS, INTERSTITIAL 1982-90; for Danubian Endemic Familial Nephropathy see Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome 2012
History Note: 1991(1982); use NEPHRITIS, INTERSTITIAL 1982-90; for Danubian Endemic Familial Nephropathy use Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome 2012
DeCS ID: 1471
Unique ID: D001449
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1991/01/01
Date of Entry: 1981/02/23
Revision Date: 2015/06/30
Balkan Nephropathy - Preferred
Concept UI M0002155
Scope note A form of chronic interstitial nephritis that is endemic to limited areas of BULGARIA, the former YUGOSLAVIA, and ROMANIA. It is characterized by a progressive shrinking of the KIDNEYS that is often associated with uroepithelial tumors.
Preferred term Balkan Nephropathy
Entry term(s) Balkan Endemic Nephropathy
Danubian Endemic Familial Nephropathy
Endemic Nephropathy, Balkan
Nephropathy, Balkan
Nephropathy, Balkan Endemic



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