Pulmonary-Renal Syndrome, Diffuse PulmonaryHemorrhage and Glomerulonephritis, Associatedwith Wegener's Granulomatosis EffectivelyTreated with Early Plasma Exchange Therapy

We present a case of a 38-year-old Japanese man with Wegeners granulomatosis complicated with pulmonary-renal syndrome, i.e., diffuse pulmonary hemorrhage and rapidly progressive renal glomerulonephritis. As this is a life-threatening condition, we promptly initiated plasma exchange with intravenous...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Internal Medicine 2007, Vol.46(1), pp.49-53
Hauptverfasser:	Sugimoto, Toshiro, Deji, Naoko, Kume, Shinji, Osawa, Norihisa, Sakaguchi, Masayoshi, Isshiki, Keiji, Koya, Daisuke, Kashiwagi, Atsunori
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	crescentic necrotizing glomerulonephritis diffuse pulmonary hemorrhage plasma exchange pulmonary-renal syndrome Wegener's granulomatosis
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