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Serum ?2 microglobulin (?2MG) level is a potential predictor for encapsulating peritoneal sclerosis (EPS) in peritoneal dialysis patients

DOI

33

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0

References

2008

Year

Keitaro Yokoyama, H. Yoshida, Nanae Matsuo, Yukio Maruyama, Y Kawamura, Ryo Yamamoto, Kazushige Hanaoka, Masato Ikeda, Hiroyasu Yamamoto, Masaaki Nakayama,
Clinical Nephrology

Abstract

These findings suggest that beta2MG is useful as a screening test for the onset of EPS, and that beta2MG and accumulation of middle-molecular uremic substances may be related to the pathophysiology of EPS.