Successful mycophenolate mofetil therapy in nine patients with idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis

Rheumatology

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1535-1538

  Adler, Sabine ^a,b   Lodermeyer, S ^a   Gaa, J ^a   Heemann, U ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Connective tissue disease; Glucocorticoids; Mycophenolate mofetil; Retroperitoneal fibrosis

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CREATININE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISONE;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONJUNCTIVITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYDRONEPHROSIS; IMPAIRED GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; IN-STENT RESTENOSIS; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; RETROPERITONEAL FIBROSIS; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETER OBSTRUCTION; URETER STENT; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; PREDNISONE; RETROPERITONEAL FIBROSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 52949104097     PISSN: 14620324     EISSN: 14620332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/ken291     Document Type: Article

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