Successful treatment of steroid-refractory double-positive ANCA and anti-GBM disease with a combination of plasma exchange and immunosuppression: A case report and literature review

The concurrence of antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis (AAV) and anti-glomerular basement membrane (GBM) disease, known as double-positive disease, is rare, but it occurs at a much higher frequency than expected by chance. Double-positive disease has an aggressive clinic...

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Main Authors: Kazuko Uto, Shigehisa Yanagi, Hironobu Tsubouchi, Nobuhiro Matsumoto, Masamitsu Nakazato
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2018-01-01
Series:Respiratory Medicine Case Reports
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213007118302739