Treatment of mixed connective tissue disease

Rheumatic Disease Clinics of North America

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 549-565

  Kim, Paul ^a   Grossman, Jennifer M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKYLATING AGENT; AMLODIPINE; ANTACID AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; AZATHIOPRINE; BOSENTAN; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT RECEPTOR; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DIGOXIN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; FLUOXETINE; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; HISTAMINE H2 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; LEFLUNOMIDE; LOSARTAN; METHOTREXATE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; NIFEDIPINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PRAZOSIN; PREDNISONE; PROSTACYCLIN; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR; STEROID; UNINDEXED DRUG; UNIPROST; VASODILATOR AGENT;

ANEMIA; ARTHRALGIA; ARTHRITIS; ASEPTIC MENINGITIS; AUTOIMMUNE HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSTIPATION; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ERYTHROCYTE APLASIA; FINGER; GANGRENE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEART BLOCK; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HISTORY; HUMAN; HYPERGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA; HYPOCOMPLEMENTEMIA; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; ISCHEMIA; KIDNEY DISEASE; LEUKOPENIA; LUNG DISEASE; LUPUS LIKE SYNDROME; MEMBRANOUS GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; MIXED CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; MYALGIA; MYOCARDITIS; MYOSITIS; NEUROPSYCHIATRY; PERICARDITIS; PLASMAPHERESIS; PLEURISY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RAYNAUD PHENOMENON; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SCLERODERMA; SKIN ULCER; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIGEMINUS NEURALGIA; VASCULAR HEADACHE;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASES; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; LUNG DISEASES; MIXED CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; SKIN DISEASES;

EID: 23444457731     PISSN: 0889857X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rdc.2005.04.008     Document Type: Review

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