Crow-Fukase syndrome - Immunoadsorption plasmapheresis effectively lowers elevated interleukin-6 concentration

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 419-422

  Ako, Shinji ^a   Kaneko, Yoko ^a   Higuchi, Makoto ^a   Ideura, Tadashi ^a   Arakura, Hideo ^a   Hora, Kazuhiko ^a   Oguchi, Hisao ^b   Kiyosawa, Kendo ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Nagano Prefectural Kiso Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ascites; Crow Fukase syndrome; Immunoadsorption plasmapheresis; Interleukin 6

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 6;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CROW FUKASE SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOADSORPTION; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ASCITES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSORBENT TECHNIQUES; INTERLEUKIN-6; MIDDLE AGED; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; PLASMAPHERESIS; POEMS SYNDROME;

EID: 0032943804     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/14.2.419     Document Type: Article

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