Infliximab therapy in children and adolescents with inflammatory bowel disease

Drugs

Volumn 67, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1703-1723

  Veres, Gabor ^a   Baldassano, Robert N ^b   Mamula, Petar ^a  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADALIMUMAB; ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; CERTOLIZUMAB PEGOL; DEXTRO ARGINYL DEXTRO NORLEUCYL DEXTRO NORLEUCYL DEXTRO NORLEUCYL DEXTRO ARGINYL DEXTRO NORLEUCYL DEXTRO NORLEUCYL DEXTRO NORLEUCYLGLYCYL DEXTRO TYROSINAMIDE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA ANTIBODY; ETANERCEPT; INFLIXIMAB; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 6; MERCAPTOPURINE; METALLOPROTEINASE; ONERCEPT; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA ANTIBODY; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA CONVERTING ENZYME;

ADOLESCENT; ARTHRALGIA; CHEST TIGHTNESS; CHILD; CROHN DISEASE; DELAYED HYPERSENSITIVITY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DRUG CLEARANCE; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG SAFETY; ENTERITIS; FATIGUE; FEVER; FLUSHING; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HERPES ZOSTER; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HOME CARE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; IMMUNOGENICITY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFECTION; INJECTION SITE REACTION; LISTERIOSIS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NAUSEA; PNEUMONIA; PREMEDICATION; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; RELAPSE; REMISSION; REVIEW; SEPSIS; SIDE EFFECT; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SKIN MANIFESTATION; T CELL LYMPHOMA; TACHYCARDIA; TUBERCULOSIS; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; VIRUS INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ANTIBODIES; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CHILD; GASTROINTESTINAL AGENTS; HUMANS; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS;

EID: 34547923651     PISSN: 00126667     EISSN: 00126667     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00003495-200767120-00005     Document Type: Review

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