Preliminary experience with plasma exchange in patients with ulcerative colitis

Transfusion Science

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 155-160

  Aandahl, G Selset ^a   Jacobsen, C D ^a   Rode, L ^a   Oedegaard, E Rathe ^a  

^a AKERSHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLITIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIGESTIVE TRACT ENDOSCOPY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL BIOPSY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; PLASMAPHERESIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

ADULT; AGED; COLECTOMY; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; PLASMA EXCHANGE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 12944257372     PISSN: 09553886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0955-3886(00)00039-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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