Successful Pregnancy and Delivery of a Healthy Newborn Despite Transplacental Transfer of Antimyeloperoxidase Antibodies From a Mother With Microscopic Polyangiitis

American Journal of Kidney Diseases

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 542-545

  Silva, Francisco ^a   Specks, Ulrich ^a   Sethi, Sanjeev ^a   Irazabal, Maria Valentina ^a   Fervenza, Fernando C ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCAs); microscopic polyangiitis (MPA); myeloperoxidase (MPO); Vasculitis

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; ENZYME ANTIBODY; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYELOPEROXIDASE ANTIBODY; NEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC ANTIBODY; PREDNISONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANCA ASSOCIATED VASCULITIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DELIVERY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY BIOPSY; MICROSCOPIC POLYANGIITIS; NEWBORN; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; REMISSION;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, ANTINEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INFANT, NEWBORN; ISOANTIBODIES; MALE; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; PEROXIDASE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, HEMATOLOGIC; VASCULITIS;

EID: 68849126289     PISSN: 02726386     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2009.02.016     Document Type: Article

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