Intravenous cyclosporine for the treatment of severe steroid refractory ulcerative colitis: What is the cost?

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1685-1690

  Poritz, Lisa S ^a   Rowe, William A ^a   Swenson, Brian R ^a   Hollenbeak, Christopher S ^a   Koltun, Walter A ^a  

^a PENN STATE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost analysis; Cyclosporine; Ileal pouch anal anastomosis; Surgical complications; Total abdominal colectomy; Ulcerative colitis

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ANAPHYLAXIS; COLON RESECTION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; FEVER; HEALTH CARE COST; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NEUTROPENIA; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; STROKE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TACHYCARDIA; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COLECTOMY; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; COLONIC POUCHES; CYCLOSPORINE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL COSTS; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STEROIDS; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 24144502521     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10350-005-0128-3     Document Type: Review

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