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Treatment of steroid-resistant membranous lupus nephritis with plasmapheresis and low-dose cyclosporine

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  1. Division of Nephrology, Saitama Children’s Medical Center, 2100 Magome, Iwatsuki-ku, Saitama-city, Saitama, 339 8551, Japan

    Shuichiro Fujinaga, Daisuke Umino & Hiroshi Mochizuki

  2. Department of Pediatrics, Juntendo Nerima Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

    Yoshiyuki Ohtomo

  3. Department of Pediatrics, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

    Mayako Takemoto, Toshiaki Shimizu & Yuichiro Yamashiro

  4. Department of Pediatrics, Kansai Medical University, Moriguchi, Osaka, Japan

    Kazunari Kaneko

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Fujinaga, S., Ohtomo, Y., Umino, D. et al. Treatment of steroid-resistant membranous lupus nephritis with plasmapheresis and low-dose cyclosporine. Pediatr Nephrol 22, 616–617 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00467-006-0356-3

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