Case report: Severe microscopic polyangiitis successfully treated with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and immunosuppression in a pediatric patient

Current Opinion in Pediatrics

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 740-742

  Di Maria, Michael V ^a   Hollister, Roger ^b   Kaufman, Jonathan ^c  

^a Department of Pediatrics ^*  (United States)

^b Division of Rheumatology   (United States)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Continuous renal replacement therapy; Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation; Microscopic polyangiitis; Polyarteritis nodosa; Rituximab

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE SODIUM SUCCINATE; NEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC ANTIBODY; PREDNISONE; RITUXIMAB;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG MEGADOSE; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; HIGH FREQUENCY VENTILATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; MALE; MICROSCOPIC POLYANGIITIS; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; EXTRACORPOREAL MEMBRANE OXYGENATION; HEMORRHAGE; HIGH-FREQUENCY VENTILATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY FAILURE, ACUTE; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; PLASMAPHERESIS; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VASCULITIS;

EID: 57149117148     PISSN: 10408703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MOP.0b013e3283168e44     Document Type: Article

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