EFFECT OF PRE- AND POSTOPERATIVE PLASMAPHERESIS ON POSTTRANSPLANT RECURRENCE OF FOCAL SEGMENTAL GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS IN CHILDREN

Ohta, Toshiyuki; Kawaguchi, Hiroshi; Hattori, Motoshi; Komatsu, Yasuhiro; Akioka, Yuko; Nagata, Michio; Shiraga, Hiroshi; Ito, Katsumi; Takahashi, Kota; Ishikawa, Nobuo; Tanabe, Kazunari; Yamaguchi, Yutaka; Ota, Kazuo

doi:10.1097/00007890-200103150-00008

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EFFECT OF PRE- AND POSTOPERATIVE PLASMAPHERESIS ON POSTTRANSPLANT RECURRENCE OF FOCAL SEGMENTAL GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS IN CHILDREN

Published in Transplantation • Mar 1, 2001

Authors:

Toshiyuki Ohta

Hiroshi Kawaguchi

Motoshi Hattori

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Posttransplant recurrence is frequent in patients who received renal transplantation for focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS). The recurrence has been ascribed to a circulating permeability factor or factors. We have used plasmapheresis (PP) to treat recurrent FSGS and also studied ...

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Medicine

Plasmapheresis

Proteinuria

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