2018 Internal medicine (Tokyo, Jap…

Effects of the Concomitant Use of Low-dose Clarithromycin with an Anti-TNFalpha Antibody in a Patient with Intestinal Behcet Disease.

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Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) Vol. 57 (3) : 339-342 • Feb 2018

A 66-year-old Japanese male with a history of Behcet disease exhibited oral and genital ulcers, and a round deep ileocecal ulcer. He was treated with a combination of mesalazine and 20 mg/day of prednisolone (PSL), but was only partially responsive to PSL and we were not able to reduce the steroid dosage. Adalimumab was also administered. However, the ulcer was not completely responsive, and weaning the patient off PSL remained impossible. In contrast, additional treatment with clarithromycin completely healed the refractory active ulcer and left only a scar. Furthermore, the ulcer has since maintained the scar stage despite successfully weaning the patient from PSL.

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