Leukocytapheresis in a girl with severe ulcerative colitis refractory to corticosteroids, infliximab, and cyclosporine A

Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1466-1467

  Dittrich, Katalin ^a,b   Richter, Markus ^a   Rascher, Wolfgang ^a,b   Köhler, Henrik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^b Kinderdialyse des Kuratoriums für Heimdialyse   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOSPORIN A; INFLIXIMAB; PREDNISOLONE; CYCLOSPORIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BLOOD VOLUME; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON BIOPSY; COLONOSCOPY; CYTAPHERESIS; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEMATOCHEZIA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LETTER; LEUKOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; DRUG RESISTANCE; HOSPITALIZATION; LEUKAPHERESIS; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; REMISSION;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CHILD; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; CYCLOSPORINE; DRUG RESISTANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKAPHERESIS; REMISSION INDUCTION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 59749101398     PISSN: 10780998     EISSN: 15364844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ibd.20464     Document Type: Letter

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