Patient with severe Crohn's disease became a father while on methotrexate and infliximab therapy

Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 648-649

  Lamboglia, Francesca ^a   D'Incà, Renata ^a   Oliva, Lydia ^a   Bertomoro, Perla ^a   Sturniolo, Giacomo Carlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; INFLIXIMAB; METHOTREXATE; STEROID; TUBERCULIN;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ABDOMINAL DRAINAGE; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABORTION; ADULT; ANEMIA; ANUS FISTULA; ARTHRALGIA; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CRANIOFACIAL MALFORMATION; CROHN DISEASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG EXPOSURE; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FATHER; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE MOTILITY; LETTER; LIMB REDUCTION DEFECT; LIQUID FECES; LOADING DRUG DOSE; MALE; MUCOPURUKENT DRAINAGE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PHARYNGITIS; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAPSE; REMISSION; SIDE EFFECT; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; SPOUSE; TERATOGENICITY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; CROHN DISEASE; FATHERS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; METHOTREXATE;

EID: 67650302083     PISSN: 10780998     EISSN: 15364844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ibd.20722     Document Type: Letter

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