Successful infliximab treatment in a patient with Takayasu arteritis associated with ulcerative colitis or migration does not override genetics

Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Gecse, Krisztina ^a   Ruzsa, Zoltán ^b   Nagy, Ferenc ^a   Wittmann, Tibor ^a   Molnár, Tamás ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^b 1st Department of Internal Medicine   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CLOPIDOGREL; INFLIXIMAB; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE; STEROID;

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; AORTA ARCH SYNDROME; BALLOON DILATATION; CASE REPORT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; LETTER; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; STEROID THERAPY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

ADULT; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; FEMALE; HUMANS; TAKAYASU ARTERITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79958849929     PISSN: 10780998     EISSN: 15364844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ibd.21731     Document Type: Letter

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