Management of acute, severe ulcerative colitis

Journal of Digestive Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 65-68

  Sachar, David B ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Colectomy; Corticosteroids; Cyclosporine; Infliximab; Surgery; Ulcerative colitis

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOSPORIN; INFLIXIMAB;

ACUTE SEVERE ULCERATIVE COLITIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; COLON PERFORATION; COLON RESECTION; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; CROHN DISEASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROLYTE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; HUMAN; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; SALVAGE THERAPY; SUBSTITUTION THERAPY; TOXIC MEGACOLON; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; COLECTOMY; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; CYCLOSPORINE; EXSANGUINATION; GASTROINTESTINAL AGENTS; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; NEOPLASMS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84856009492     PISSN: 17512972     EISSN: 17512980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-2980.2011.00560.x     Document Type: Article

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