Use of therapeutic plasma exchange in the management of acute hemorrhagic leukoencephalitis: A case report and review of the literature

Transfusion

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 981-986

  Ryan, Lori J ^a   Bowman, Robert ^b   Zantek, Nicole Dodge ^b   Sherr, Gregory ^b   Maxwell, Robert ^b   Clark, H Brent ^b   Mair, David C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ADULT; APHASIA; ARM WEAKNESS; ARTICLE; BRAIN BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CRANIOTOMY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; EXTUBATION; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LITERATURE; MALE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIA; PLASMAPHERESIS; SEROLOGY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOM;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; APHASIA; BIOPSY; BRAIN; CRANIOTOMY; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; LEUKOENCEPHALITIS, ACUTE HEMORRHAGIC; MALE; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; PLASMA EXCHANGE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34249019832     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2007.01227.x     Document Type: Article

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