Severe septicaemia in a patient with polychondritis and Sweet's syndrome after initiation of treatment with infliximab [1]

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 81-82

  Matzkies, F G ^a   Manger, B ^a   Schmitt Haendle, M ^a   Nagel, T ^a   Kraetsch, H G ^a   Kalden, J R ^a   Schulze Koops, H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZATHIOPRINE; GLUCOCORTICOID; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; INFLIXIMAB; METHOTREXATE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA ANTIBODY;

ABSCESS; ACUTE FEBRILE NEUTROPHILIC DERMATOSIS; ADULT; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFECTIOUS COMPLICATION; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; LETTER; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; POLYCHONDRITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPTICEMIA; SKIN BIOPSY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; AZATHIOPRINE; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYCHONDRITIS, RELAPSING; SEPSIS; SWEET'S SYNDROME;

EID: 0037216474     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.62.1.81     Document Type: Letter

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