Disease-modifying therapy in vasculitides
By: C.G.M. Kallenberg, J.W. Cohen Tervaert, editors.
Contributors: Kallenberg, Cornelis Gijsbertus Maria.; Tervaert, Jan W. Cohen.
Series: Progress in inflammation research; PIR (Series)
Published: 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
Subjects: Vasculitis
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Systemic vasculitides, an introduction; title: Standard therapeutic regimens for vasculitis; title: Tumor nectrosis factor (TNF) inhibition in the treatment of vasculitis; title: Methotrexate as an alternative to classic immunosuppressive therapies; title: Intravenous immunoglobulin as immuno-modifying treatment; title: T-cell directed treatment: anti-thymocyte globulin; title: New immunosuppressants: mycophenolate mofetil and 15-deoxyspergualin; title: Interferon-Ü for the treatment of virus-related systemic vasculitides; title: Autologous stem cell therapy for systemic vasculitis; title: Prevention of relapsing disease in  anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody related necrotizing small-vessel vasculitis: the role for autoantibody guided and anti-bacterial treatment.