Mycophenolate Mofetil for Maintenance Therapy of Wegener's Granulomatosis and Microscopic Polyangiitis

Nowack, Rainer; Göbel, U.; Klooker, Pieter; Hergesell, Olaf; Andrássy, K.; J. van der Woude, Fokko

doi:10.1681/asn.v1091965

Public

Mycophenolate Mofetil for Maintenance Therapy of Wegener's Granulomatosis and Microscopic Polyangiitis

Published in Journal of the American Society of Nephrology • Sep 1, 1999

Authors:

Rainer Nowack

U. Göbel

Pieter Klooker

Abstract

Successful maintenance therapy with mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) 2 g/d and low-dose oral corticosteroids (OCS) over a period of 15 mo was given to patients with Wegener's granulomatosis (WG) (n = 9) and microscopic polyangiitis (MPA) (n = 2). All patients had severe generalized disease with pauci-imm...

Subject

Medicine

Maintenance therapy

Azathioprine

Finding related papers...

Discussions

(0)

No comments yet

Be the first to share your thoughts!