Infliximab in a patient with ankylosing spondylitis and secondary IgA nephropathy requiring haemodialysis

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 440-

  Marocchi, Elisa ^a   Spadaro, A ^a   Giannakakis, K ^a   Priori, R ^a   Valesini, G ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFLIXIMAB; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENT; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS; CASE REPORT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A NEPHROPATHY; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X RAY; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS, IGA; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RENAL DIALYSIS; SPONDYLITIS, ANKYLOSING;

EID: 77957006741     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: 1593098X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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