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Although corticosteroids have been the initial agent for the treatment of inflammatory myopathies (IM), immunosuppressive agents such as azathioprine, methotrexate, cyclophosphamide, or cyclosporine are commonly required to control the disease...
PURPOSE: To assess the clinical outcomes of cyclosporine treatment for noninfectious uveitis.
METHODS: A retrospective review of medical records was completed for 182 noninfectious uveitis patients who were treated with cyclosporine...
Park CY, Kim HJ, Kim YJ, Park YH, Lee JW, Min WS, Kim CC
KMID: 759638
Korean J Intern Med.
2003 Mar;18(1):61-63.
Aplastic anemia is a rare complication of thymoma and is extremely infrequent after thymectomy. We present a case of a 60-year-old woman with very severe aplastic anemia appearing sixteen months...
The pathogenic mechanism of focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) and aplastic anemia are associated with immunologic events which lead to glomerular cell injury or hematopoietic cell destruction. We present an extremely...
Recent development of multidetector-row CT (MDCT) has improved the z-axis resolution of spiral CT and provided the isotropic imaging capability, which enables various postprocessing technique without degradating the quality of...
Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) is a rare, fatal disorder of children, affecting predominantly the mononuclear phagocytic system. Previous reports indicate that Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-associated hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (EBV-HLH) can also be fatal...