Therapeutic effect of intraarterial prednisolone injection in severe intestinal Behçet's disease.

作者信息

Toda Katsuhisa, Shiratori Yoshimune, Yasuda Mori, Enya Masamichi, Uematsu Takahiro, Shimazaki Makoto, Fukutomi Yasushi, Kato Tomohiro, Moriwaki Hisataka

机构信息

First Department of Internal Medicine, Gifu University School of Medicine, 40 Tsukasa-machi, Gifu 500-8705, Japan.

出版信息

J Gastroenterol. 2002;37(10):844-8. doi: 10.1007/s005350200139.

A 64-year-old woman with severe intestinal Behçet's disease who was unresponsive to conventional therapies, including intensive intravenous steroid injections, underwent intraarterial steroid injection therapy. After the infusion of prednisolone into the mesenteric arteries, her colon ulcers improved markedly, and the frequency of bloody stools decreased immediately. The present case suggests that intraarterial steroid injection therapy may be potentially useful in severe intestinal Behçet's disease.