Presentation and outcome of gastrointestinal involvement in systemic necrotizing vasculitides: Analysis of 62 patients with polyarteritis nodosa, microscopic polyangiitis, Wegener granulomatosis, Churg-Strauss syndrome, or rheumatoid arthritis-associated vasculitis

Medicine

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 115-128

  Pagnoux, Christian ^a   Mahr, Alfred ^a   Cohen, Pascal ^a   Guillevin, Loïc ^a  

^a Hôpital Cochin ^*  (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DAPSONE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; LAMIVUDINE; METHOTREXATE; STEROID; VIDARABINE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ADULT; AGED; CHOLECYSTITIS; CHURG STRAUSS SYNDROME; COLON ULCER; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; ESOPHAGUS ULCER; FEMALE; GASTRODUODENAL ULCER; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HEMATEMESIS; HEMATOCHEZIA; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTESTINE ISCHEMIA; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINE PERFORATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MELENA; MICROSCOPIC POLYANGIITIS; NAUSEA; NECROTIZING ARTERITIS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PERITONITIS; PLASMAPHERESIS; POLYARTERITIS NODOSA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL RATE; VOMITING; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; CHILD; DIARRHEA; ENDOSCOPY, DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; FEMALE; FRANCE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NAUSEA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VASCULITIS; VOMITING;

EID: 15744373536     PISSN: 00257974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.md.0000158825.87055.0b     Document Type: Review

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