Effect of plasmapheresis as initial monotherapy in a case of anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibody positive crescentic glomerulonephritis

ASAIO Journal

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 509-513

  Akimoto, Tetsu ^a   Ando, Yasuhiro ^a   Ito, Chiharu ^a   Muto, Shigeaki ^a   Kusano, Eiji ^a   Asano, Yasushi ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPYRIDAMOLE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MIZORIBINE; NEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC ANTIBODY; PREDNISOLONE; TICLOPIDINE; WARFARIN;

AGED; ANTIBODY TITER; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY COMPLEX; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; CREATININE CLEARANCE; FILTRATION; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY INJURY; MALE; MONOTHERAPY; PLASMAPHERESIS;

EID: 0033200925     PISSN: 10582916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002480-199909000-00026     Document Type: Article

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