A case of mixed connective tissue disease complicated with thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura

Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 101-104

  Kuroda, Takeshi ^a   Matsuyama, Kouki ^a   Nakatsue, Takeshi ^a   Murakami, Syuuichi ^a   Hasegawa, Hisashi ^a   Nakayama, Hideaki ^a   Sakatsume, Minoru ^a   Ueno, Mitsuhiro ^a   Nakano, Masaaki ^b   Gejyo, Fumitake ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chronic renal failure; Coma; MCTD; TTP; vWF CP

Indexed keywords

FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR CLEAVING PROTEINASE;

AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMA; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; JAPANESE; KIDNEY FAILURE; MIXED CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA;

ADAM PROTEINS; AGED; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIXED CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; PLASMA EXCHANGE; PURPURA, THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC;

EID: 33845898182     PISSN: 07703198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10067-005-0105-1     Document Type: Article

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