Mycophenolate sodium: Effective treatment for therapy-refractory intestinal Behçet's disease, evaluated with enteroscopy

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 103, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 3213-3214

  Kappen, Jasper H ^a   Mensink, Peter B F ^a   Lesterhuis, Wilco ^b   Lachman, Sangeeta ^a   Van Daele, Paul L A ^a   Van Hagen, P Martin ^a   Van Laar, Jan A M ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ALBERT SCHWEITZER HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; AZATHIOPRINE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISONE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR INHIBITOR; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADD ON THERAPY; ADULT; BEHCET DISEASE; BLOODY DIARRHEA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COLITIS; COLONOSCOPY; DOUBLE BALLOON ENTEROSCOPY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; GENITAL ULCER; HUMAN; ILEOCOLITIS; LETTER; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN DEFECT; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; CROHN DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED;

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; AZATHIOPRINE; BEHCET SYNDROME; COLONOSCOPY; CROHN DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; PREDNISONE;

EID: 58149399365     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.2008.02161_13.x     Document Type: Letter

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