Life-threatening gastrointestinal mucosal necrosis during methotrexate treatment for rheumatoid arthritis

Case Reports in Gastroenterology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 470-475

  Tsukada, Tomoya ^a,b   Nakano, Tatsuo ^b   Miyata, Takashi ^a,b   Sasaki, Shozo ^b  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Asanogawa General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adverse effect; Drug lymphocyte stimulation test; Gastrointestinal tract; Methotrexate; Mucosal injury; Necrosis; Rheumatoid arthritis; Type IV allergic reactions

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CREATININE; FOLINIC ACID; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; HEMOGLOBIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; LAXATIVE; LOXOPROFEN; MEROPENEM; METHOTREXATE; NITROGEN; POLYMYXIN B; PREDNISOLONE; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR; RECOMBINANT THROMBOMODULIN; UREA; VANCOMYCIN;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ABDOMINAL TENDERNESS; AGED; ANEMIA; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BALLOON DILATATION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BOLUS INJECTION; CASE REPORT; COLITIS; COLON BIOPSY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSTIPATION; CONTINUOUS HEMODIAFILTRATION; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DESCENDING COLON; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; DUODENUM ULCER; ENTERIC FEEDING; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; EROSIVE GASTRITIS; ESOPHAGUS BIOPSY; FECES CULTURE; FECES IMPACTION; FEMALE; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL MUCOSAL NECROSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOTHERAPY; JAPANESE (PEOPLE); KIDNEY INJURY; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LOW DRUG DOSE; LOWER ABDOMINAL PAIN; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; MUCOSAL NECROSIS; NAUSEA; ORAL MUCOSITIS; PANCYTOPENIA; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PATIENT REFERRAL; PETECHIA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURIFICATION; REST; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; VERY ELDERLY;

EID: 84893095693     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16620631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000356817     Document Type: Article

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