Prolonged membranous lupus nephritis with change of anti-ssDNA antibody titer and repeated renal relapse

Clinical and Experimental Nephrology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 363-368

  Yumura, Wako ^a   Suganuma, Shinya ^a   Nitta, Kosaku ^a   Sano, Yoshie ^a   Uchida, Keiko ^a   Nihei, Hiroshi ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anti ssDNA antibody; Membranous lupus nephritis; Mizoribine; Nephrotic syndrome; Systemic lupus erythematosus

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C1Q; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DIPYRIDAMOLE; DNA ANTIBODY; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G2; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G3; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; STEROID;

ADULT; AMENORRHEA; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS BASEMENT MEMBRANE; GLOMERULUS CAPILLARY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOCOMPLEMENTEMIA; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; MEMBRANOUS LUPUS NEPHRITIS; MESANGIUM; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; PROTEINURIA; RECURRENT DISEASE; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; VIRUS PARTICLE;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, ANTINUCLEAR; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; FEMALE; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS, MEMBRANOUS; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, ACUTE; KIDNEY GLOMERULUS; LUPUS NEPHRITIS; PROTEINURIA; RECURRENCE;

EID: 21744444493     PISSN: 13421751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10157-004-0306-y     Document Type: Article

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