Eight patients with Functional Class 111. seropositive. erosive rheumatoid arthritis unresponsive to remitlive drugs each underwent nine aphereseh over 3 w e e k . Four had a 40-inllkg plasma exchange and four other\ had a 40-mli kg plasma exchange plus a mean 5.67 X 10' lymphocyte depletion. Both g
Plasmapheresis and lymphoplasmapheresis in the management of rheumatoid arthritis
โ Scribed by Daniel J. Wallace; Dennis Goldfinger; Richard Gatti; Cheryl Lowe; Peng Fan; Rodney Bluestone; James R. Klinenberg
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1979
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 729 KB
- Volume
- 22
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0004-3591
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