Profile of ustekinumab and its potential in patients with moderate-to-severe Crohn's disease

Clinical and Experimental Gastroenterology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 173-179

  Tuskey, Anne ^a   Behm, Brian W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical trials; Crohn's disease; Inflammatory bowel disease; Ustekinumab

Indexed keywords

ADALIMUMAB; AZATHIOPRINE; CERTOLIZUMAB PEGOL; CORTICOSTEROID; INFLIXIMAB; INTERLEUKIN 12P40; INTERLEUKIN 23; MERCAPTOPURINE; METHOTREXATE; PLACEBO; PREDNISONE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA INHIBITOR; USTEKINUMAB;

ABSCESS; ANAL ABSCESS; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; COLON STENOSIS; CROHN DISEASE; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG EXPOSURE; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG PROTEIN BINDING; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG SPECIFICITY; DRUG TARGETING; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FAINTNESS; FATIGUE; FEVER; FLUSHING; HEADACHE; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMAN; INFECTION; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; NEPHROLITHIASIS; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PNEUMOTHORAX; PROSTATE CANCER; PRURITUS; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; RHINOPHARYNGITIS; SIDE EFFECT; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; THERAPY RESISTANCE; TUBERCULOSIS; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VAGINA ABSCESS; VIRAL GASTROENTERITIS;

EID: 84901433463     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11787023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/CEG.S39518     Document Type: Review

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