Acute hemorrhagic Crohn's disease controlled with infliximab

Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1456-1457

  Meyer, Marty M ^a   Levine, Edward J ^a  

^a THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY WEXNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; INFLIXIMAB; MESALAZINE; PREDNISONE; STEROID;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; BLEEDING DISORDER; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLONOSCOPY; CROHN DISEASE; DOSE RESPONSE; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; FEMALE; HEMATOCHEZIA; HEMOGLOBINOPATHY; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; ILEITIS; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPEATED DRUG DOSE; TACHYCARDIA;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; COLONIC DISEASES; COLONOSCOPY; CROHN DISEASE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70450195602     PISSN: 10780998     EISSN: 15364844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ibd.20840     Document Type: Letter

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