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Treatment of Isolated Gastric Crohn's Disease with Inhaled Corticosteroids
Isolated gastric Crohn's disease is unusual and a rare cause of pyloric outlet obstruction. If medical therapy is ineffective, patients may require surgery to relieve gastric outlet obstruction. Herein we describe a patient with isolated gastric Crohn's disease with pyloric outlet obstruct...
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| Formato: | Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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S. Karger AG
2008
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3075198/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21490870 http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000158543 |
| Sumario: | Isolated gastric Crohn's disease is unusual and a rare cause of pyloric outlet obstruction. If medical therapy is ineffective, patients may require surgery to relieve gastric outlet obstruction. Herein we describe a patient with isolated gastric Crohn's disease with pyloric outlet obstruction who was steroid-dependent and had a relapse despite receiving biologic and immunomodulatory therapy, but ultimately responded to topical treatment with inhaled corticosteroids. |
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