Plasmapheresis as rescue therapy for systemic lupus erthyematosus- associated diffuse alveolar haemorrhage

BMJ Case Reports

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Claridge, Simon ^a   Das, Partha ^a   Dorling, Anthony ^a   Robson, Michael ^a  

^a GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C4; CREATININE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; PREDNISOLONE; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN ANTIBODY; RO ANTIBODY; SM ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DECREASED APPETITE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY BIOPSY; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS NEPHRITIS; MALAISE; MOOD DISORDER; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT RESPONSE; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 79955373320     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1757790X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bcr.02.2011.3893     Document Type: Article

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