Rescue treatment of severe lupus myocarditis and proliferative lupus nephritis with immunoadsorption

Sandra Karanović Štambuk^{1

2}, Ivan Padjen^{3

4}, Nikolina Bašić Jukić^{1

2}, Jadranka Šeparović Hanževački^{1

5}, Branimir Anić^{1

6}

Affiliations

¹ School of Medicine University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia.
² University Hospital Center Zagreb, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Arterial Hypertension, Dialysis and Transplantation, Zagreb, Croatia.
³ School of Medicine University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia. ivan_padjen@yahoo.ca.
⁴ University Hospital Center Zagreb, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, National Referral Centre for Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Related Disorders, Zagreb, Croatia. ivan_padjen@yahoo.ca.
⁵ University Hospital Center Zagreb, Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, Zagreb, Croatia.
⁶ University Hospital Center Zagreb, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, National Referral Centre for Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Related Disorders, Zagreb, Croatia.

Sandra Karanović Štambuk et al. Clin Rheumatol. 2023 Jun.

. 2023 Jun;42(6):1723-1725.

doi: 10.1007/s10067-023-06611-x. Epub 2023 Apr 27.

Sandra Karanović Štambuk^{1

2}, Ivan Padjen^{3

4}, Nikolina Bašić Jukić^{1

2}, Jadranka Šeparović Hanževački^{1

5}, Branimir Anić^{1

6}

¹ School of Medicine University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia.
² University Hospital Center Zagreb, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Arterial Hypertension, Dialysis and Transplantation, Zagreb, Croatia.
³ School of Medicine University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia. ivan_padjen@yahoo.ca.
⁴ University Hospital Center Zagreb, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, National Referral Centre for Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Related Disorders, Zagreb, Croatia. ivan_padjen@yahoo.ca.
⁵ University Hospital Center Zagreb, Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, Zagreb, Croatia.
⁶ University Hospital Center Zagreb, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, National Referral Centre for Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Related Disorders, Zagreb, Croatia.

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