Mixed connective tissue disease with multiple organ damage: Successful treatment with plasmapheresis

Internal Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1119-1122

  Seguchi, Masato ^a   Soejima, Yoshiyuki ^a   Tateishi, Akio ^a   Iida, Hiroshi ^a   Yamamoto, Midori ^a   Nakashima, Ken ^a   Murakami, Fujio ^a   Ohashi, Satomi ^a   Yamashita, Susumu ^a   Maekawa, Tsuyoshi ^a   Murashige, Akihiro ^a   Umemoto, Seiji ^a   Matsuzaki, Masunori ^a   Fukumoto, Yohei ^a  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bronchial calcinosis; Vasospasm; Visceral Raynaud's phenomenon

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIGEN; CYCLOSPORIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN;

ACIDOSIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BLEEDING; BRONCHITIS; CALCINOSIS; CASE REPORT; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; ISCHEMIA; MIXED CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PATHOLOGY; PLASMAPHERESIS; VASCULARIZATION; VASOCONSTRICTION; VISCERA;

ACIDOSIS; ADULT; AUTOANTIGENS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; BRONCHITIS; CALCINOSIS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CYCLOSPORINE; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR COAGULATION; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; ISCHEMIA; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MIXED CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PLASMAPHERESIS; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN, U1 SMALL NUCLEAR; VASOCONSTRICTION; VISCERA;

EID: 0034569189     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.39.1119     Document Type: Article

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