Progressive multifocal leucoencephalopathy in a patient with sarcoidosis - Successful treatment with cidofovir and mirtazapine [4]

Rheumatology

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 888-890

  Owczarczyk, Katarzyna ^a   Hilker, R ^b   Brunn, A ^a   Hallek, M ^a   Rubbert, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CALCIUM; CIDOFOVIR; HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR; METHOTREXATE; MIRTAZAPINE; PREDNISOLONE; SEROTONIN ANTAGONIST; SEROTONIN RECEPTOR; STEROID; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; CYTOSINE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; MIANSERIN; PHOSPHONIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ADULT; ARTHRALGIA; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CASE REPORT; CD4 CD8 RATIO; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID EXAMINATION; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; JC VIRUS; LETTER; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; NAUSEA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSIVE MULTIFOCAL LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; SARCOIDOSIS; TREMOR; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; VIRUS ACTIVATION; VIRUS INHIBITION; VIRUS REPLICATION; DRUG COMBINATION; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; MIDDLE AGED; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION;

ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; CYTOSINE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY, PROGRESSIVE MULTIFOCAL; MIANSERIN; MIDDLE AGED; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; PHOSPHONIC ACIDS; SARCOIDOSIS;

EID: 34347235542     PISSN: 14620324     EISSN: 14620332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/kem049     Document Type: Letter

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