[A case study: interferon-beta-induced remission of ulcerative colitis in a patient with type C chronic hepatitis].
A 66-year-old man patient with chronic hepatitis (CH) C and complications from ulcerative colitis (UC) was treated with interferon-beta (IFN-beta). Endoscopically, the UC disease activity was moderate before IFN-beta treatment but was in remission eight week after treatment. However, a few months after stopping IFN treatment, endoscopy revealed that the UC disease activity had returned to moderate levels. This result shows that UC improved with IFN treatment.
Miike
Tadashi
T
Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, Japan.
Tahara
Yoshihiro
Y
Yamaguchi
Yumi
Y
Harada
Taku
T
Abe
Hiroo
H
Kusumoto
Kazunori
K
Numata
Masatsugu
M
Hasuike
Satoru
S
Yamamoto
Shojiro
S
Kodama
Mayumi
M
Nagata
Kenji
K
Hayashi
Katsuhiro
K
Shimoda
Kazuya
K
D000368:Aged; D003093:Colitis, Ulcerative / Q000188:drug therapy*; D019698:Hepatitis C, Chronic / Q000188:drug therapy*; D006801:Humans; D016899:Interferon-beta / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D008297:Male; D012074:Remission Induction
D016899:Interferon-beta