Review article: Medical treatment of severe ulcerative colitis

Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Supplement

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 7-12

  Rizzello, F ^a   Gionchetti, P ^a   Venturi, A ^a   Campieri, M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CORTICOTROPIN; CYCLOSPORIN; CYCLOSPORIN A; HYDROCORTISONE; INFLIXIMAB; INTERLEUKIN 6; MERCAPTOPURINE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; METRONIDAZOLE; PREDNISOLONE; TETRACYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA ANTIBODY; VANCOMYCIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; GLUCOCORTICOID; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; STEROID;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLON RESECTION; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; CROHN DISEASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; FECES ANALYSIS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REMISSION; REVIEW; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; TOXIC MEGACOLON; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, STEROIDAL; ANTIBIOTICS; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; CYCLOSPORINE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS, SYNTHETIC; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; STEROIDS;

EID: 0036272429     PISSN: 09530673     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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