Evidence of immunopathological traces in mucormycosis: An autopsy case

Clinical and Experimental Nephrology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 396-400

  Kusaba, Gaku ^a   Ohsawa, Isao ^a   Ishii, Masaya ^a   Inoshita, Hiroyuki ^a   Ohi, Hiroyuki ^a   Horikoshi, Satoshi ^a   Takase, Masaru ^b   Yamaguchi, Yutaka ^c   Tomino, Yasuhiko ^a  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute crescentic glomerulonephritis; Hypocomplementemia; Mannose binding lectin (MBL); Mucormycosis

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; BICARBONATE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CALCIUM; CIPROFLOXACIN; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C1Q; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C4; CREATININE; CRYOGLOBULIN; HEMOGLOBIN; MANNOSE BINDING LECTIN; MEROPENEM; NITROGEN; PANIPENEM PLUS BETAMIPRON; POTASSIUM; PREDNISOLONE; SODIUM; UREA;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; DISEASE COURSE; DYSPNEA; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEVER; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS HYPHAE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOCOMPLEMENTEMIA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN DEPOSITION; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; INTERNAL JUGULAR VEIN; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTOCLASTIC VASCULITIS; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; MUCORMYCOSIS; PNEUMONIA; PROLIFERATIVE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; RASH; SKIN BIOPSY; SMALL VESSEL VASCULITIS; SPUTUM CULTURE; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY; AGED; AUTOPSY; COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; COMPLEMENT SYSTEM PROTEINS; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS, MEMBRANOPROLIFERATIVE; HUMANS; IMMUNE COMPLEX DISEASES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MUCORMYCOSIS; VASCULITIS; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 78649466188     PISSN: 13421751     EISSN: 14377799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10157-010-0289-9     Document Type: Article

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