Intravenous Cyclosporine in Attacks of Ulcerative Colitis: Short-Term and Long-Term Responses

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 2471-2476

  Carbonnel, Franck ^a   Boruchowicz, Arnaud ^b   Duclos, Bernard ^b   Soulé, Jean Claude ^b   Lerebours, Eric ^b   Lémann, Marc ^b   Belaïche, Jean ^b   Colombel, Jean Frédéric ^b   Cosnes, Jacques ^b   Gendre, Jean Pierre ^b  

^a HÔPITAL ROTHSCHILD   (France)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Acute colitis; Cyclosporine; Ulcerative colitis

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOSPORIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COLECTOMY; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; COLONOSCOPY; CYCLOSPORINE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030482294     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02100145     Document Type: Article

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