Successful treatment with cyclosporin in adult-onset Still disease manifesting as acute hepatitis with marked hyperferritinemia

American Journal of the Medical Sciences

Volumn 326, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 148-151

  Omagari, Katsuhisa ^a   Matsunaga, Yuko ^a   Yamashita, Hiroshi ^a   Nishiyama, Hitoshi ^a   Hazama, Hiroaki ^a   Oda, Hidetoshi ^b   Isomoto, Hajime ^a   Mizuta, Yohei ^a   Murase, Kunihiko ^a   Kohno, Shigeru ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Isahaya Insurance General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute hepatitis; Adult onset Still disease Cyclosporin; Ferritin

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN; CYCLOSPORIN; CYTOKINE; FERRITIN; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 6; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ACUTE HEPATITIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG PULSE THERAPY; FEMALE; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; FEVER; HUMAN; HYPERFERRITINEMIA; JAUNDICE; JUVENILE RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; ONSET AGE; SORE THROAT;

EID: 0141457186     PISSN: 00029629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000441-200309000-00009     Document Type: Article

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