Sinusoidal dilatation: A rare side effect of azathioprine

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 63, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1702-1703

  Jacobi, A M ^a   Feist, E ^a   Rudolph, B ^a   Burmester, G R ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; DIURETIC AGENT; FUROSEMIDE; HEPARIN; ILOPROST; PREDNISONE; SPIRONOLACTONE; WARFARIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BONE MARROW TOXICITY; CASE REPORT; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; HEMOLYSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER SINUSOID DILATATION; PANCYTOPENIA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN C DEFICIENCY; PROTEIN S DEFICIENCY; SIDE EFFECT; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AZATHIOPRINE; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC;

EID: 9644278142     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.2003.017855     Document Type: Article

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