A complicated case of tacrolimus-induced rapid remission after cesarean section in the early third trimester for refractory severe ulcerative colitis flaring in the initial period of gestation

Case Reports in Gastroenterology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 144-151

  Mizushima, Takashi ^a   Tanida, Satoshi ^a   Mizoshita, Tsutomu ^a   Hirata, Yoshikazu ^a   Murakami, Kenji ^a   Shimura, Takaya ^a   Kataoka, Hiromi ^a   Kamiya, Takeshi ^a   Joh, Takashi ^a  

^a NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cesarean section; Intensive granulocyte and monocyte adsorptive apheresis; Pregnancy; Tacrolimus; Ulcerative colitis

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; AMINOSALICYLIC ACID; AZATHIOPRINE; BETAMETHASONE; CORTICOSTEROID; ENEMA; PREDNISOLONE; TACROLIMUS; VANCOMYCIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ANEMIA; APHERESIS; ARTICLE; BLOODY DIARRHEA; CASE REPORT; CESAREAN SECTION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CONGENITAL DISORDER; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; CYTAPHERESIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ERADICATION THERAPY; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FETUS WEIGHT; GRANULOCYTE AND MONOCYTE ADSORPTIVE APHERESIS; HUMAN; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PANCYTOPENIA; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTORY SEVERE ULCERATIVE COLITIS; REMISSION; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; TOTAL PARENTERAL NUTRITION; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

EID: 79957790095     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16620631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000326938     Document Type: Article

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