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How to prevent, recognize, and treat drug-induced nephrotoxicity

Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine. 2002 April;69(4):289-290, 293-294, 296-297, 303-305, 309-312
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ABSTRACTMany drugs can injure the kidneys, but they cause renal injury via only a few common mechanisms. Many patients who develop renal injury after drug exposure have identifiable risk factors that could be modified or that should preclude the use of these drugs in the first place.