Infliximab for life-threatening pulmonary artery aneurysms in Beliefs disease: A case report

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 29, Issue 4 SUPPL. 67, 2011, Pages

  Tolosa Vilella, C ^a,b   Capela, C A P ^a   Monteagudo Jimenez M ^a   Mart Alfonso, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENOXAPARIN; INFLIXIMAB; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; AZATHIOPRINE; CEFOTAXIME; PREDNISONE;

ADULT; BEHCET DISEASE; CASE REPORT; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; INTERNAL MEDICINE; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY ANEURYSM; VEIN THROMBOSIS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; HEART ATRIUM THROMBOSIS; LOW BACK PAIN; LOW DRUG DOSE; PATENT FORAMEN OVALE; PYELONEPHRITIS; REMISSION; VASCULITIS;

ADULT; ANEURYSM; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BEHCET SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMANS; PULMONARY ARTERY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 80855144489     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: 1593098X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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