Improvement of thrombocytopenia in a patient with autoimmune pancreatitis after helicobacter pylori eradication

Internal Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 321-322

  Miyatani, Hiroyuki ^a   Yoshida, Yukio ^a   Ikeda, Masatoshi ^a   Sagihara, Noriyoshi ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autoimmune pancreatitis; Helicobacter pylori eradication; Thrombocytopenia

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; FAMOTIDINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4; LANSOPRAZOLE; PICOSULFATE SODIUM; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE PANCREATITIS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; STOMACH ULCER; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; UREA BREATH TEST;

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATITIS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 40749150384     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.47.0399     Document Type: Article

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