Corticosteroid therapy for hemolytic anemia and respiratory failure due to mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia

Internal Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 229-232

  Tsuruta, Ryosuke ^a   Kawamura, Yoshikatsu ^a   Inoue, Takeshi ^a   Kasaoka, Shunji ^a   Sadamitsu, Daikai ^a   Maekawa, Tsuyoshi ^a  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cold agglutinin; Emphysema; Hematuria; Steroid pulse therapy

Indexed keywords

BETA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; CLARITHROMYCIN; COLD AGGLUTININ; CORTICOSTEROID; ERYTHROMYCIN; FLOMOXEF; HAPTOGLOBIN; INSULIN; MEROPENEM; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; OXITROPIUM BROMIDE; PREDNISOLONE; GLUCOCORTICOID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG EFFICACY; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HUMAN; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MALE; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIA; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED;

ANEMIA, HEMOLYTIC; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; MALE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA, MYCOPLASMA; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 0036209323     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.41.229     Document Type: Article

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