Potential benefit of plasma exchange in treatment of severe icteric leptospirosis complicated by acute renal failure

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 482-484

  Tse, Kai Chung ^a   Yip, Pok Siu ^a   Hui, King Men ^a   Li, Fu Keung ^a   Yuen, Kwok Yung ^a   Lai, Kar Neng ^a   Chan, Tak Mao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN; PENICILLIN G;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MALE; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; HUMANS; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; JAUNDICE; KIDNEY FAILURE, ACUTE; MALE; PLASMA EXCHANGE; WEIL DISEASE;

EID: 0036128451     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CDLI.9.2.482-484.2002     Document Type: Article

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