A new treatment for polyarteritis nodosa
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A new treatment for polyarteritis nodosa.
A 69-year-old male developed a temperature of 40 C, abdominal pain and florid lower limb purpura whilst holiday in Cyprus. Treatments for a lower respiratory tract infection and for presumed Henoch Schonlein Purpura were instituted. Within a week, he developed anuric renal failure and disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC). He was treated by daily haemodialysis until his condition was suf...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1460-2385,0931-0509
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfk082