Progressive renal disease despite immunosuppressive therapy in a patient with Wegener's granulomatosis

Netherlands Journal of Medicine

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 125-127

  Klein, I ^a   Vervoort, G ^b   Steenbergen, E ^b   Wetzels, J ^b  

^a SLINGELAND HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Crescentic glomerulonephritis; M. Wegener; Vasculitis

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CREATININE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; HEMOGLOBIN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MYELOBLASTIN; NEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC ANTIBODY; PREDNISOLONE;

AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COUGHING; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DYSPNEA; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPISTAXIS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY FUNCTION; MALE; NASAL BIOPSY; NOSE DISEASE; PLASMAPHERESIS; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; RAPIDLY PROGRESSIVE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; SYMPTOM; TACHYCARDIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINALYSIS; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

AGED; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY DISEASES; MALE; PREDNISOLONE; TRIMETHOPRIM; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

EID: 41349115952     PISSN: 03002977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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