Slowly Progressive, Not Rapidly Progressive, MPO-ANCA Positive Glomerulonephritis and Its Characteristics
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Intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg) therapy in MPO-ANCA related polyangiitis with rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis in Japan.
For 30 myeloperoxidase (MPO) antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA) related rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis patients (male 17, female 13, average age of 68 +/- 11.8 years old), intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg) (400 mg/kg/day) was administered for 5 consecutive days before or along with conventional immunosuppressive therapy in Japan. Twenty patients were treated with IVIg before the...
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عنوان ژورنال: Internal Medicine
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0918-2918,1349-7235
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.41.418