A case of pregnancy-induced thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura with a kidney allograft recipient

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 24, Issue SUPPL. 22, 2010, Pages 66-69

  Iwami, Daiki ^a   Harada, Hiroshi ^a   Hotta, Kiyohiko ^b   Miura, Masayoshi ^b   Seki, Toshimori ^a   Togashi, Masaki ^a   Hirano, Tetsuo ^a  

^a SAPPORO CITY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

A disintegrin like and metalloprotease with thrombospondin type 1 motifs 13 (ADAMTS13); Kidney transplantation; Pregnancy; Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; BASILIXIMAB; GANCICLOVIR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; RITUXIMAB; TACROLIMUS; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR CLEAVING PROTEINASE; BLOOD GROUP ABO SYSTEM; GLUCOCORTICOID;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; FEMALE; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; KIDNEY FAILURE; LOW DRUG DOSE; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; NEPHROTOXICITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAPIDLY PROGRESSIVE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; RENAL GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; SYMPTOM; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; BLOOD GROUP ABO SYSTEM; COMPLICATION; DRUG PULSE THERAPY; GRAFT REJECTION; IMMUNOLOGY; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; PATHOLOGY; PLASMAPHERESIS; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PURPURA, THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ABO BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM; ADULT; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; PLASMA EXCHANGE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, HEMATOLOGIC; PULSE THERAPY, DRUG; PURPURA, THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC; RENAL DIALYSIS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 77954516402     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: 13990012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2010.01272.x     Document Type: Article

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