Fatal complication of thrombotic microangiopathy in a patient with mixed connective tissue disease

Rheumatology International

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 122-125

  Kato, Akihiko ^a,b   Suzuki, Yohji ^a,b   Fujigaki, Yoshihide ^a,b   Yamamoto, Tatsuo ^a,b   Yonemura, Katsuhiko ^a,b   Miyajima, Hiroaki ^a,b   Hishida, Akira ^a,b  

^a HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b SHIZUOKA CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chronic renal failure; Coma; Diffusion weighted MRI; MCTD; TTP

Indexed keywords

STEROID; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN STEM; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMA; CONFUSION; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DRUG PULSE THERAPY; FRONTAL LOBE; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HUMAN; INSULA; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; MALE; MICROTHROMBUS; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; BRAIN; FATALITY; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; MIXED CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; REVIEW; VASCULARIZATION;

BRAIN; COMA; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MIDDLE AGED; MIXED CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; PREDNISOLONE; PULSE THERAPY, DRUG; PURPURA, THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC;

EID: 0036632414     PISSN: 01728172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00296-002-0202-2     Document Type: Article

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