Two cases of ANCA-associated vasculitis in post-transplant kidney: Relapse and de novo

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 23, Issue SUPPL. 20, 2009, Pages 49-53

  Tabata, Hidehiro ^a   Honda, Kazuho ^a   Moriyama, Takahito ^a   Itabashi, Mitsuyo ^a   Taneda, Sekiko ^a   Takei, Takashi ^a   Tanabe, Kazunari ^a   Teraoka, Satoshi ^a   Yamaguchi, Yutaka ^b   Oda, Hideaki ^a   Nitta, Kosaku ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

De novo; Kidney transplantation; MPO ANCA; Necrotizing crescentic glomerulonephritis; Relapse

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN A; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; NEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC ANTIBODY; STEROID;

ADULT; ANCA ASSOCIATED VASCULITIS; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY TITER; CASE REPORT; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; HEMATURIA; HEMODIALYSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; RAPIDLY PROGRESSIVE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; RELAPSE; RENAL GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; STEROID THERAPY;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, ANTINEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC; BIOPSY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENCE; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; VASCULITIS;

EID: 67650664254     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: 13990012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2009.01010.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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