Successful treatment of protein-losing enteropathy due to AA amyloidosis with somatostatin analogue and high dose steroid in ankylosing spondylitis

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 619-621

  Jeong, Y S ^a   Jun, J B ^a   Kim, T H ^a   Lee, I H ^a   Bae, S C ^a   Yoo, D H ^a   Park, M H ^a   Kim, S Y ^a  

^a Hanyang University Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Amyloidosis; Ankylosing spondylitis; Octreotide; Protein losing enteropathy; Somatostatin analogue

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 1 ANTITRYPSIN; PREDNISOLONE; SOMATOSTATIN ANALOG;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AMYLOIDOSIS; ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIARRHEA; HUMAN; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; KIDNEY AMYLOIDOSIS; MALE; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOSING GASTROENTEROPATHY; PROTEINURIA;

ADULT; AMYLOIDOSIS; CASE REPORT; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GASTROINTESTINAL AGENTS; GLUCOCORTICOIDS, SYNTHETIC; HUMAN; MALE; OCTREOTIDE; PREDNISOLONE; PROTEIN-LOSING ENTEROPATHIES; SOMATOSTATIN; SPONDYLITIS, ANKYLOSING;

EID: 0033819386     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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