Eosinophilic gastroenteritis with severe protein-losing enteropathy: Successful treatment with budesonide

Digestive and Liver Disease

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 55-59

  Siewert, E ^a   Lammert, F ^b   Koppitz, P ^a   Schmidt, T ^a   Matern, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Budesonide; Eosinophilic gastroenteritis; Glucocorticoids; Protein losing enteropathy

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ALPHA 1 ANTITRYPSIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BUDENOFALK; CORTICOSTEROID; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; BUDESONIDE;

ADULT; ARM EDEMA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CAUCASIAN; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLONOSCOPY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DUODENUM; EOSINOPHIL; EOSINOPHILIC GASTROENTERITIS; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; HYPOPROTEINEMIA; ILEUM; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; INTESTINE WALL; LABORATORY TEST; LEG EDEMA; PROTEIN LOSING GASTROENTEROPATHY; REMISSION; STOMACH BIOPSY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERNER MORRISON SYNDROME; BIOPSY; EOSINOPHILIA; GASTROENTERITIS; PATHOLOGY;

ADULT; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; BIOPSY; BUDESONIDE; DUODENUM; EOSINOPHILIA; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMANS; ILEUM; PROTEIN-LOSING ENTEROPATHIES;

EID: 33744755403     PISSN: 15908658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dld.2005.06.013     Document Type: Article

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