Serum anti-myeloperoxidase antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (MPO-ANCA) in patients with Graves' disease receiving anti-thyroid medication

Internal Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 463-464

  Ashizawa, Kiyoto ^a   Eguchi, Katsumi ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anti myeloperoxidase antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (MPO ANCA); Graves' disease; Propylthiouracil

Indexed keywords

ANTITHYROID AGENT; AUTOANTIBODY; BENZYLTHIOURACIL; CORTICOSTEROID; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; MYELOPEROXIDASE ANTIBODY; NEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC ANTIBODY; OXYGEN RADICAL; PROPYLTHIOURACIL; THIAMAZOLE; THYROID PEROXIDASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGRANULOCYTOSIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; APOPTOSIS; CROSS REACTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EDITORIAL; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMAN; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; NEUTROPENIA; ONSET AGE; PATIENT MONITORING; PLASMAPHERESIS; PROGNOSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VASCULITIS;

EID: 0042171713     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.42.463     Document Type: Editorial

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