New-onset demyelination induced by infliximab therapy in two rheumatoid arthritis patients

Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 929-933

  Tanno, Makoto ^a   Nakamura, Ichiro ^a   Kobayashi, Shunsuke ^b   Kurihara, Kumiko ^a   Ito, Katsumi ^a  

^a Yugawara Kosei Nenkin Hospital   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Demyelinating; Infliximab; Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Multiple sclerosis; Rheumatoid arthritis; Tumor necrosis factor

Indexed keywords

BUCILLAMINE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN; DEXAMETHASONE SODIUM PHOSPHATE; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE; INFLIXIMAB; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISONE; RHEUMATOID FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DEMYELINATING DISEASE; DIPLOPIA; DIZZINESS; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG TOLERABILITY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT;

AGED; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; CONTRAST MEDIA; DEMYELINATING DISEASES; FEMALE; GADOLINIUM DTPA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STEROIDS; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 33749188761     PISSN: 07703198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10067-005-0097-x     Document Type: Article

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