Peripheral neuropathy in two patients with rheumatoid arthritis receiving infliximab treatment

Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 258-260

  Tektonidou, Maria G ^a   Serelis, John ^a   Skopouli, Fotini N ^a  

^a Athens Euroclinic   (Greece)

Author keywords

Adverse events; Infliximab; Peripheral neuropathy

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; INFLIXIMAB; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISOLONE; RECOMBINANT INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG PULSE THERAPY; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HAND GRIP; HUMAN; LIMB WEAKNESS; MALE; MOTOR NEUROPATHY; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE CONDUCTION; PARESTHESIA; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; POLYNEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SENSORY NEUROPATHY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; WALKING DIFFICULTY;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PERIPHERAL NERVES; POLYNEUROPATHIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 33845874892     PISSN: 07703198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10067-006-0317-z     Document Type: Article

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