| Introduction of a New Therapeutic Modality for the Chronic Behcets Disease Patients: Synchronization of Plasmapheresis with Immune Modulation Therapy-. |
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Song Hak Kim, Suk Dong Kim |
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Department of Ophthalmology, Holy Family Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, Puchun, Korea. |
| 만성 베체트병 환자에 대한 새로운 치료모델의 제시 - 혈장반출법을 이용한 면역 조절요법 - |
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김송학(Song Hak Kim),김석동(Suk Dong Kim) |
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| Abstract |
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The Behcets disease patients with uveitis are oftern suffering from chronic recurrent inflammation resulting in the blindness. Etiology, prognosis, treatment modalities of this disease are various, and the factors, affecting the chronic long term prognosis are not clearly identified. Current treatment for Behcets disease is combination therapy : steroid with colchicine, cyclophosphamide, or cyclosporin. But these kinds of treatment was insufficient to change the disease process and often produced severe complications. Authors treated 4 cases of Behcets patients who had chronic progressive steroid resistent uveitis, with synchronizatin of plasmapheresis and immune modulation therapy. All of them showed marked improvement in uveal inflammatory reaction and visual acuity. |
| Key Words:
Behcets disease;Plasmapheresis;Immune modulation |
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