A case of C3 glomerulonephritis successfully treated with eculizumab

Pediatric Nephrology

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1033-1037

  Payette, Alexis ^a   Patey, Natalie ^a   Dragon Durey, Marie Agnès ^b   Frémeaux Bacchi, Véronique ^b   Le Deist, Françoise ^a   Lapeyraque, Anne Laure ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b HÔPITAL EUROPÉEN GEORGES POMPIDOU   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; C3 PROTEIN, HUMAN; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3; ECULIZUMAB; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; DRUG EFFECTS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; GLOMERULUS; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; METABOLISM; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROTEINURIA; REMISSION; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL, HUMANIZED; BIOMARKERS; BIOPSY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPLEMENT C3; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY GLOMERULUS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PROTEINURIA; REMISSION INDUCTION; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84939939865     PISSN: 0931041X     EISSN: 1432198X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00467-015-3061-2     Document Type: Article

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