A case of Wegener's granulomatosis with pulmonary bleeding successfully treated with double filtration plasmapheresis (DFPP)

Clinical and Experimental Nephrology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 369-374

  Iwatani, Hirotsugu ^a,b   Uzu, Takashi ^b   Kakihara, Masahiro ^b   Nakayama, Yuji ^b   Kanasaki, Keizo ^b   Yamato, Masaya ^b   Hirai, Yasuhiro ^b   Umimoto, Koichi ^b   Yamauchi, Atsushi ^b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b OSAKA ROSAI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cytoplasmic antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (c ANCA); Double filtration plasmapheresis (DFPP); Pulmonary bleeding; Wegener's granulomatosis

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; NEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC ANTIBODY; PREDNISOLONE; STEROID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE COURSE; FEVER; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; KIDNEY BIOPSY; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLASMAPHERESIS; PROTEINURIA; REMISSION; SINUSITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

ADULT; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ANTIBODIES, ANTINEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; KIDNEY GLOMERULUS; LUNG; MALE; MAXILLARY SINUSITIS; PLASMAPHERESIS; PREDNISOLONE; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

EID: 21744460080     PISSN: 13421751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10157-004-0321-z     Document Type: Article

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