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Treatment of children and adolescents with ulcerative colitis by adsorptive depletion of myeloid lineage leucocytes as monotherapy or in combination with low dose prednisolone after failure of first-line medications

BACKGROUND: Currently available drugs for the treatment of ulcerative colitis (UC) include salicylates, thiopurines, corticosteroids and new anti-tumour necrosis factor (TNF)-α biologics. Among these medications, corticosteroids in children and adolescents may adversely affect the patients’ growth a...

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Autores principales: Tanaka, Tomotaka, Sugiyama, Shinichiro, Goishi, Hirokazu, Kajihara, Tsuyoshi, Akagi, Morihisa, Miura, Toshio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3765231/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23961883
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-230X-13-130