Urinary β 2-microglobulin as a sensitive marker for haemophagocytic syndrome associated with collagen vascular diseases

Rheumatology

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1730-1732

  Onishi, S ^a   Ikenoya, K ^a   Matsumoto, K ^a   Kamata, Y ^a   Nagashima, T ^a   Kamimura, T ^a   Iwamoto, M ^a   Minota, S ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA 2 MICROGLOBULIN; BETAMETHASONE; CREATINE KINASE; CYCLOSPORIN A; DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; MEPREDNISONE; MIZORIBINE; TEICOPLANIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ADULT; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSPNEA; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FEMALE; FEVER; HEMOPHAGOCYTIC SYNDROME; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LETTER; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOPENIA; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; URINE LEVEL; HEMOPHAGOCYTIC LYMPHOHISTIOCYTOSIS; URINE; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ADULT; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; BETA 2-MICROGLOBULIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; LYMPHOHISTIOCYTOSIS, HEMOPHAGOCYTIC; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 54449084748     PISSN: 14620324     EISSN: 14620332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/ken361     Document Type: Letter

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