A case report of the therapeutic effect of cryofiltration in a patient with glucocorticoid-resistant ulcerative colitis

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 159-162

  Ohkawara, Tatsuya ^a,b   Saito, Masao ^a   Nakagawa, Souichi ^a   Ohizumi, Hiroko ^a   Tamaki, Toru ^a   Yonekawa, Motoki ^a   Takeda, Hiroshi ^b   Asaka, Masahiro ^b   Nishihira, Jun ^b   Kawamura, Akio ^a  

^a SAPPORO HOKUYU HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cryofiltration; Interleukin 10; Ulcerative colitis

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID; INTERLEUKIN 10; MESALAZINE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; APHERESIS; ARTICLE; BIOFILTRATION; BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON RADIOGRAPHY; COLONOSCOPY; CRYOFILTRATION; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; HEMATOCHEZIA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADULT; ANTIGEN-ANTIBODY COMPLEX; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; CRYOTHERAPY; DRUG RESISTANCE; FEMALE; FILTRATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; INTERLEUKIN-10; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33947403544     PISSN: 17449979     EISSN: 17449987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-9987.2007.00418.x     Document Type: Article

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