Managing refractory Crohn’s disease: Challenges and solutions

Clinical and Experimental Gastroenterology

Volumn 8, Issue , 2015, Pages 131-140

  Tanida, Satoshi ^a   Ozeki, Keiji ^a   Mizoshita, Tsutomu ^a   Tsukamoto, Hironobu ^a   Katano, Takahito ^a   Kataoka, Hiromi ^a   Kamiya, Takeshi ^a   Joh, Takashi ^a  

^a NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adalimumab; Combination therapy; Complete remission; Granulocyte and monocyte adsorptive apheresis

Indexed keywords

ADALIMUMAB; AZATHIOPRINE; BUDESONIDE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CERTOLIZUMAB PEGOL; CORTICOSTEROID; GLUCOCORTICOID; INFLIXIMAB; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; MERCAPTOPURINE; MESALAZINE; METRONIDAZOLE; NATALIZUMAB; PLACEBO; PREDNISOLONE; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; USTEKINUMAB; VEDOLIZUMAB;

APHERESIS; APHERESIS DEVICE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; BONE MARROW TOXICITY; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED RELEASE FORMULATION; CROHN DISEASE; DEMYELINATING DISEASE; DIET THERAPY; DRUG DOSE ESCALATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; GRANULOCYTE AND MONOCYTE ADSORPTIVE APHERESIS; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTAPHERESIS; LEUKOPENIA; LOW DRUG DOSE; LYMPHOMA; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MYOCARDITIS; PROGRESSIVE MULTIFOCAL LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; PROTEIN TARGETING; REMISSION; REVIEW; SEPSIS; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL;

EID: 84936937167     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11787023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/CEG.S61868     Document Type: Review

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