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Do you wait until serum anti-GBM antibody titers are undetectable before hospital discharge in a patient with anti-GBM antibody disease with renal involvement who is receiving daily plasmapheresis, cyclophosphamide, and steroids?

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Nephrology · The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

If such a patient is responding to treatment, titers are declining, is otherwise doing well, and does not have extra-renal issues that would require hospitalization, for example, an ongoing oxygen requirement for lung involvement, they could be managed as an outpatient if pheresis can be arranged. I...

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Do you wait until serum anti-GBM antibody titers are undetectable before hospital discharge in a patient with anti-GBM antibody disease with renal involvement who is receiving daily plasmapheresis, cyclophosphamide, and steroids? | Mednet