Efficacy of methylprednisolone pulse therapy in children with rheumatoid arthritis

Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1371-1375

  Aghighi, Yahya ^a   Attarod, Lida ^a   Javanmard, Maryam ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis; Methyprednisolone; Pulse therapy

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHLOROQUINE; FOLIC ACID; HEMOGLOBIN; IBUPROFEN; METHOTREXATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; NAPROXEN; PREDNISOLONE; TOLMETIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG PULSE THERAPY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FEVER; FLUSHING; HEADACHE; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFANT; INFLAMMATION; IRAN; JOINT SWELLING; JUVENILE RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; LOW DRUG DOSE; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAISE; MALE; MORNING STIFFNESS; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NAUSEA; PEDIATRIC WARD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; RECURRENCE RISK; REMISSION; SIDE EFFECT; SPLENOMEGALY; TACHYCARDIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOMITING; WEAKNESS;

ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, JUVENILE RHEUMATOID; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PULSE THERAPY, DRUG; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 53849129877     PISSN: 07703198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10067-008-0919-8     Document Type: Article

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