Adult-onset Still's Disease complicated by autoimmune hepatitis: Successful treatment with infliximab

Internal Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1125-1128

  Fujii, Kenji ^a   Rokutanda, Ryo ^a   Osugi, Yasuhiro ^a   Koyama, Yoshinobu ^a   Ota, Toshiyuki ^a  

^a ASO IIZUKA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adult onset Still's disease; Autoimmune hepatitis; IgG4 related disease; Sj gren's syndrome; TNF inhibitor

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; FERRITIN; INFLIXIMAB; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISOLONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT ONSET STILL DISEASE; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; ERYTHEMA; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FEVER; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERFERRITINEMIA; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER DYSFUNCTION;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; FEMALE; HEPATITIS, AUTOIMMUNE; HUMANS; STILL'S DISEASE, ADULT-ONSET;

EID: 84860617237     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.51.6824     Document Type: Article

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