A case of myeloperoxidase - Antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody positive-polyarteritis nodosa complicated by interstitial pneumonia and rapidly progressive renal failure

Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 429-432

  Sugimoto, Toshiro ^a   Kanasaki, Keizo ^a   Koyama, Tetsuro ^a   Yokomaku, Yukiyo ^a   Yasuda, Hitoshi ^a   Kashiwagi, Atsunori ^a   Koya, Daisuke ^a  

^a SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Interstitial pneumonia; Myeloperoxidase antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody; Polyarteritis nodosa; Renal failure

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZATHIOPRINE; CALCIUM ANTAGONIST; CREATININE; MYELOPEROXIDASE; NEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC ANTIBODY; PREDNISOLONE;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; AGED; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FEVER; HEMATURIA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTENSION; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; KIDNEY ARTERIOGRAPHY; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; LUNG FIBROSIS; MALAISE; MICROSCOPIC POLYANGIITIS; MYALGIA; POLYARTERITIS NODOSA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; RAPIDLY PROGRESSIVE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; URINE SEDIMENT; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ANTIBODIES, ANTINEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC; AZATHIOPRINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY FAILURE; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; POLYARTERITIS NODOSA; PREDNISOLONE;

EID: 33947651652     PISSN: 07703198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10067-005-0142-9     Document Type: Article

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