Title | Disease-modifying Therapy in Vasculitides [electronic resource] / edited by Cees G. M. Kallenberg, Jan W. Cohen Tervaert |
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Imprint | Basel : Birkhรคuser Basel : Imprint: Birkhรคuser, 2001 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8235-4 |
Descript | IX, 206 p. online resource |
Systemic vasculitides, an introduction -- Standard therapeutic regimens for vasculitis -- Tumor necrosis factor (TNF) inhibition in the treatment of vasculitis -- Methotrexate as an alternative to classic immunosuppressive therapies -- Intravenous immunoglobulin as immuno-modifying treatment -- T-cell directed treatment: anti-thymocyte globulin -- New immunosuppressants: mycophenolate mofetil and 15-deoxyspergualin -- Interferon-? for the treatment of virus-related systemic vasculitides -- Autologous stem cell therapy for systemic vasculitis -- Prevention of relapsing disease in anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody related necrotizing small-vessel vasculitis: the role for autoantibody guided and anti-bacterial treatment