Successful treatment of recurrent intracardiac thrombus in Behçet's disease with immunosuppressive therapy

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 885-887

  Kaneko, Yuko ^a   Tanaka, Karin ^a   Yoshizawa, Akihiro ^a   Yasuoka, Hidekata ^a   Suwa, Akira ^a   Satoh, Toru ^a   Iwanaga, Shiro ^a   Ogawa, Satoshi ^a   Ikeda, Yasuo ^a   Hirakata, Michito ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; HEPARIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; PREDNISOLONE; STEROID; WARFARIN;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BEHCET DISEASE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIPLOPIA; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTRACARDIAC THROMBOSIS; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG ABSCESS; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SPINE FRACTURE; THROMBECTOMY; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BEHCET SYNDROME; CORONARY THROMBOSIS; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDNISOLONE; RECURRENCE;

EID: 29944434390     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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