Efficacy of Plasma Exchange Therapy for Kawasaki Disease by Cytokine Profiling

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 281-283

  Kashiwagi, Yasuyo ^a   Kawashima, Hisashi ^a   Akamatsu, Nobuko ^a   Morishima, Yasuyuki ^a   Nishimata, Shigeo ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CYCLOSPORIN; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 17; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 7; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

CASE REPORT; CERVICAL LYMPHADENOPATHY; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; DRUG MEGADOSE; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOTHERAPY; INFORMED CONSENT; LETTER; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME; PATIENT MONITORING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME; PLASMA EXCHANGE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 84861329373     PISSN: 17449979     EISSN: 17449987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-9987.2012.01065.x     Document Type: Letter

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