A case of ischemic colitis occurring in pegylated interferon-alfa-2B and ribavirin therapy for chronic hepatitis C

Endoscopic Forum for Digestive Disease

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Iwamatsu, Hiroshi ^a,c   Tsunajima, Katsumasa ^a   Saitoh, Ryouichi ^a   Watanabe, Naozumi ^b   Hayashi, Tatsuhiko ^b   Murayama, Yuichi ^b   Shimizu, Takeaki ^b  

^a Divison of Internal Medicine

^b Murakami General Hospital   (Japan)

^c Murakami General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Interferon therapy; Ischemic colitis

Indexed keywords

PEGINTERFERON ALPHA2B; RIBAVIRIN; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL LOSS; COLON BIOPSY; COLON HEMORRHAGE; COLON MUCOSA; COLONOSCOPY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DESCENDING COLON; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; FEMALE; GOBLET CELL; HEMATOCHEZIA; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ISCHEMIC COLITIS; RECURRENCE RISK; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

EID: 57449098696     PISSN: 09120505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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