Clearance efficacy of autoantibodies in double filtration plasmapheresis for pemphigus foliaceus

Acta Dermato-Venereologica

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 181-215

  Kasuya, Akira ^a   Moriki, Mutsumi ^a   Tatsuno, Kazuki ^a   Hirakawa, Satoshi ^a   Tokura, Yoshiki ^a  

^a HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; AUTOANTIBODY; CYCLOSPORIN; FIBRINOGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MIZORIBINE; PREDNISOLONE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; DESMOGLEIN 1; DSG1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; SERUM ALBUMIN;

ADULT; AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; BODY FLUID; BODY WEIGHT; CASE REPORT; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FIBRINOGEN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR SPACE; LETTER; MALE; PEMPHIGUS FOLIACEUS; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TREATMENT DURATION; BLOOD; IMMUNOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PEMPHIGUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY; CHRONIC MYELOMONOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; DOUBLE FILTRATION PLASMAPHERESIS; JAPANESE; MOUTH MUCOSA;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOANTIBODIES; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; DESMOGLEIN 1; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEMPHIGUS; PLASMAPHERESIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84875078488     PISSN: 00015555     EISSN: 16512057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2340/00015555-1444     Document Type: Letter

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