Successful infliximab treatment of posterior scleritis in a 13-year-old child refractory to other immunosuppressive therapy

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 245, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1735-1737

  Weiss, Katrin ^a   Rieger, R ^a   Keitzer, R ^a   Pleyer, U ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anti TNF treatment; Child; Scleritis; Treatment

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN A; INFLIXIMAB; METHOTREXATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DEPRESSION; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG MEGADOSE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MEDICAL RECORD; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; SCLERITIS; SIDE EFFECT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY; WEIGHT GAIN;

ADOLESCENT; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; SCLERITIS; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 34848910759     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-007-0634-1     Document Type: Article

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