Renal transplantation in patients with microscopic polyarteritis and antimyeloperoxidase antibodies: Report of three cases

Nephron

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 82-85

  Frascà, Giovanni M ^a   Neri, Loris ^a   Martello, Mauro ^a   Sestigiani, Elena ^a   Borgnino, Luigi C ^a   Bonomini, Vittorio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Antimyeloperoxidase antibodies; Antineutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibodies; Micropolyarteritis; Renal transplantation; Vasculitis

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; AZATHIOPRINE; CREATININE; CYCLOSPORIN; GRANULOCYTE ANTIBODY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; MYELOPEROXIDASE; STEROID;

ADULT; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CADAVER KIDNEY; CASE REPORT; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIALYSIS; FEMALE; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; POLYARTERITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBODIES, ANTINEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC; CREATININE; FEMALE; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PEROXIDASE; POLYARTERITIS NODOSA; RENAL DIALYSIS;

EID: 0030050769     PISSN: 16608151     EISSN: 22353186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000188811     Document Type: Article

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