Treatment of autoimmune disease with extracorporeal photochemotherapy: progressive systemic sclerosis.

In this report, we describe the use of extracorporeal photochemotherapy in n the treatment of two patients with rapidly advancing progressive systemic sclerosis. Both patients experienced improvement in the cutaneous as well as the systemic manifestations of their disease while undergoing therapy. T...

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Autores principales: Rook, A. H., Freundlich, B., Nahass, G. T., Washko, R., Macelis, B., Skolnicki, M., Bromley, P., Witmer, W. K., Jegasothy, B. V.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine 1989
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2589144/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2636803
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Sumario:In this report, we describe the use of extracorporeal photochemotherapy in n the treatment of two patients with rapidly advancing progressive systemic sclerosis. Both patients experienced improvement in the cutaneous as well as the systemic manifestations of their disease while undergoing therapy. The potential therapeutic mechanisms are discussed.

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