Therapy for the maintenance of remission in sixty-five patients with generalized Wegener's granulomatosis: Methotrexate versus trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 2052-2061

  De Groot, Kirsten ^a,c   Reinhold Keller, Eva ^a   Tatsis, Efstratios ^a   Paulsen, Jens ^b   Heller, Martin ^b   Nölle, Bernhard ^b   Gross, Wolfgang L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISONE; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MIXTURE; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEUKOPENIA; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; NAUSEA; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PANCYTOPENIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; SCHOOL CHILD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; METHOTREXATE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDNISONE; REMISSION INDUCTION; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TRIMETHOPRIM; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

EID: 0030464106     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.1780391215     Document Type: Article

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