Severe polyneuropathy complicating active Crohn's disease: Rapid response to infliximab [1]

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Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1070-

  Rodino S ^a,b   Sacca N ^a   D'Amico, T ^a   Fragomeni, A ^a   Giglio, A ^a  

^a PUGLIESE CIACCIO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CHIMERIC ANTIBODY; CORTICOSTEROID; CYANOCOBALAMIN; FOLIC ACID; INFLIXIMAB; PYRIDOXINE;

ADULT; ARTHRALGIA; CASE REPORT; COLON DISEASE; CROHN DISEASE; CRYOGLOBULINEMIA; DEMYELINATING DISEASE; DEMYELINATING NEUROPATHY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG ABUSE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG TOLERABILITY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HUMAN; ILEUM DISEASE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LETTER; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MYALGIA; NERVE FIBER; NEURITIS; NEUROPATHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCREATITIS; POLYARTERITIS NODOSA; POLYNEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL NERVE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SARCOIDOSIS; SCIATIC NERVE; SIDE EFFECT; SKULL; SPINAL CORD LESION; SYMPTOM; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CROHN DISEASE; DRUG RESISTANCE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL AGENTS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEURITIS;

EID: 0038460929     PISSN: 00175749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/gut.52.7.1070     Document Type: Letter

References (3)

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3. Triantafillidis JK, Cheracakis P, Hereti IA, et al. Acute idiopathic pancreatitis complicating active Crohn's disease. Favorable response to infliximab treatment: Am J Gastroenterol 2001;96:2510-1.