Immunosuppressive Therapy for Ocular Mucous Membrane Pemphigoid. Strategies and Outcomes

Ophthalmology

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Saw, Valerie P J ^a,b   Dart, John K G ^a,b   Rauz, Saaeha ^a   Ramsay, Andrew ^a   Bunce, Catey ^a,b   Xing, Wen ^a   Maddison, Patricia G ^a   Phillips, Melanie ^a  

^a MOORFIELDS EYE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN; DAPSONE; METHOTREXATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISOLONE; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE; STEROID; SULFANILAMIDE DERIVATIVE; SULFAPYRIDINE;

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ANOREXIA; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONJUNCTIVITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DIARRHEA; DIZZINESS; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSPNEA; DYSURIA; EYE INFLAMMATION; FEMALE; HALLUCINATION; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INDIGESTION; INSOMNIA; LETHARGY; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LIVER TOXICITY; LOW DRUG DOSE; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAISE; MALE; MUSCLE CRAMP; MYALGIA; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; OCULAR MUCOUS MEMBRANE PEMPHIGOID; OSTEOPOROSIS; PANCYTOPENIA; PARESTHESIA; PEMPHIGOID; PEPTIC ULCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; RASH; REMISSION; SCAR FORMATION; SHIVERING; SIDE EFFECT; THORAX PAIN; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TINNITUS; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TREMOR; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; UNSTEADINESS; UNSTEADY FEET; VISUAL ACUITY; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 38549090752     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2007.04.027     Document Type: Article

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