Rapidly progressive interstitial lung disease due to anti-MDA-5 antibody-positive clinically amyopathic dermatomyositis complicated with cervical cancer: Successful treatment with direct hemoperfusion using polymyxin B-immobilized fiber column therapy

The anti-melanoma differentiation-associated gene 5 (MDA-5) antibody is a marker of clinically amyopathic dermatomyositis (CADM) and rapidly progressive interstitial lung disease (ILD) with acute respiratory failure. A 35-year-old woman with cervical cancer showed Gottron's papules, severe hypo...

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Main Authors: Hidenori Ichiyasu, Yasumiko Sakamoto, Chieko Yoshida, Kazuhiko Sakamoto, Ryosuke Fujita, Go Nakayama, Hiroko Okabayashi, Sho Saeki, Shinichiro Okamoto, Hirotsugu Kohrogi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017-01-01
Series:Respiratory Medicine Case Reports
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213007116301757