Effective maintenance leukocytapheresis for patients with steroid dependent or resistant ulcerative colitis

Therapeutic Apheresis

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 462-465

  Kondo, Kenji ^a   Shinoda, Toshio ^a   Yoshimoto, Hiroshi ^a   Takazoe, Masakazu ^a   Hamada, Tsutomu ^a  

^a Social Insurance Central General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Leukocytapheresis; Maintenance therapy; Steroid dependence; Steroid resistance; Ulcerative colitis

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; STEROID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLONOSCOPY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEUKAPHERESIS; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADULT; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; DRUG RESISTANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKAPHERESIS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REMISSION INDUCTION; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 0035678443     PISSN: 10916660     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1526-0968.2001.00379.x     Document Type: Article

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