Urinary Findings Among Adults and Children in a Region of Nicaragua Endemic for Mesoamerican Nephropathy

Anna K Strasma; Hannah Worrall; Chandan Vangala; Reyna M Silva Cabrera; Sreedhar A Mandayam; Kristy O Murray; Rebecca S B Fischer

doi:10.1016/j.ekir.2021.11.015

Urinary Findings Among Adults and Children in a Region of Nicaragua Endemic for Mesoamerican Nephropathy

Kidney Int Rep. 2021 Nov 24;7(2):327-329. doi: 10.1016/j.ekir.2021.11.015. eCollection 2022 Feb.

Authors

Anna K Strasma^{1

2}, Hannah Worrall³, Chandan Vangala², Reyna M Silva Cabrera⁴, Sreedhar A Mandayam^{2

5}, Kristy O Murray^{3

6}, Rebecca S B Fischer^{3

7}

Affiliations

¹ Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
² Section of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA.
³ Section of Pediatric Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA.
⁴ Amigos for Christ, Chinandega, Nicaragua.
⁵ Section of Nephrology, Division of Internal Medicine, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA.
⁶ The William T. Shearer Center for Human Immunobiology, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA.
⁷ Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA.

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Keywords: Mesoamerican endemic nephropathy; Nicaragua; chronic interstitial nephritis in agricultural communities (CINAC); chronic kidney disease of unknown origin (CKDu); tubulointerstitial nephritis.