Double filtration plasmapheresis for the treatment of a rheumatoid arthritis patient with extremely high level of C-reactive protein

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 404-408

  Matsuda, Yukihiro ^a,b,c   Tsuda, Hiroshi ^b   Takasaki, Yoshinari ^b   Hashimoto, Hiroshi ^b  

^a Chiba Social Insurance Hospital   (Japan)

^b JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c Chiba Social Insurance Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

C reactive protein; Double filtration plasmapheresis; Myeloperoxidase antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody; Rheumatoid arthritis

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; M PROTEIN; MYELOPEROXIDASE; NEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC ANTIBODY; PREDNISOLONE;

AGED; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CASE REPORT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DOUBLE FILTRATION PLASMAPHERESIS; FATIGUE; FEVER; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; MALE; PLASMAPHERESIS; POLYNEUROPATHY; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SKIN NODULE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULITIS;

AGED; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOELECTROPHORESIS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MALE; PLASMAPHERESIS; VASCULITIS;

EID: 10044280668     PISSN: 10916660     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-0968.2004.00173.x     Document Type: Article

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