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Successful use of eculizumab in an 86-year-old patient with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria in Japan

Eculizumab was used to treat an 86-year-old male patient with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria, the oldest reported case in Japan. As observed in younger patients, this drug rapidly suppressed hemolysis in the present patient, which allowed weaning from blood transfusion. Eculizumab treatment has...

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Autores principales: Ooe, Yokiko, Nagai, Tomoko
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3890435/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24455465
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2193-1801-3-10

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