Glucocorticoid and cyclosporine refractory adult onset Still's disease successfully treated with tocilizumab

Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 485-487

  Matsumoto, Kazuko ^a   Nagashima, Takao ^a   Takatori, Shino ^a   Kawahara, Yuta ^a   Yagi, Masaki ^a   Iwamoto, Masahiro ^a   Okazaki, Hitoaki ^a   Minota, Seiji ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adult onset Still's disease; Disseminated intravascular coagulation; Interleukin 6; Tocilizumab

Indexed keywords

ACUTE PHASE PROTEIN; ATLIZUMAB; CYCLOSPORIN; DEXAMETHASONE; FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; GLUCOCORTICOID; HEPARIN; INTERLEUKIN 6; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ADULT ONSET STILL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG PULSE THERAPY; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPANESE; LOW DRUG DOSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CYCLOSPORINE; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR COAGULATION; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INTERLEUKIN-6; STILL'S DISEASE, ADULT-ONSET; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 61549119438     PISSN: 07703198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10067-009-1097-z     Document Type: Article

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