Predictive factors of response to leukocytapheresis therapy for ulcerative colitis

Therapeutic Apheresis

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 115-119

  Yajima, Tomoharu ^a   Takaishi, Hiromasa ^a   Kanai, Takanori ^a   Iwao, Yasushi ^a   Watanabe, Mamoru ^a   Ishii, Hiromasa ^a   Hibi, Toshifumi ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Leukocytapheresis; Steroid resistant therapy; Ulcerative colitis

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CORTICOSTEROID; MERCAPTOPURINE; PREDNISOLONE; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FILTER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CYTAPHERESIS; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LEUKAPHERESIS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAPSE; REMISSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

EID: 0031862225     PISSN: 10916660     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-9987.1998.tb00087.x     Document Type: Article

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