Fulminant Lupus Pneumonitis With Acute Renal Failure and RBC Aplasia: Successful Management With Plasmapheresis and Immunosuppression

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 141, Issue 8, 1981, Pages 1081-1083

  Isbister, James P ^a,b   Ralston, Mary ^a   Hayes, James M ^a   Wright, Robert ^a  

^a ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b Royal North Shore Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; PREDNISOLONE;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADOLESCENT; APLASTIC ANEMIA; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG FIBROSIS; PLASMAPHERESIS; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS;

ADOLESCENT; ANEMIA, APLASTIC; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY FAILURE, ACUTE; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; PLASMAPHERESIS; PREDNISOLONE; PULMONARY FIBROSIS;

EID: 0019597017     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.1981.00340080117027     Document Type: Article

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