Plasma exchange and haemodiafiltration in fulminant meningococcal sepsis

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 484-487

  Kumar, Ajay ^a   Kanagasundaram, N Suren ^a   Collyns, Timothy A ^a   Davison, Alexander M ^a  

^a ST JAMES S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PENICILLIN G;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; EPIDEMIC MENINGITIS; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; SEPTIC SHOCK;

EID: 0031985368     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.ndt.a027853     Document Type: Article

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