A dramatic response to intravenous immunoglobulin in a patient with mixed cryoglobulinemia

Israel Medical Association Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 53-54

  Almog, Ofer ^b   Berlin, Tatiana ^b   Rotman Pikielny, Pnina ^b   Levy, Yair ^a  

^a MEIR MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Cryoglobulinemia; Intravenous immunoglobulin; Peripheral neuropathy; Vasculitis

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CREATININE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; PREDNISONE; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARM WEAKNESS; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD EXAMINATION; CASE REPORT; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; CRYOGLOBULINEMIA; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG MEGADOSE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FOCAL GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; GASTRITIS; GASTROSCOPY; HEMATURIA; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; LOW DRUG DOSE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; MYALGIA; MYOPATHY; NONHUMAN; OSTEOPOROSIS; PROTEINURIA; PURPURA; REMISSION; SIDE EFFECT; TREATMENT RESPONSE; WATER RETENTION;

ADULT; CRYOGLOBULINEMIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS;

EID: 76049113739     PISSN: 15651088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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