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Clinically silent Crohn’s disease in a patient with Takayasu’s Arteritis unresponsive to conventional therapies

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Takayasu arteritis (TA) and Crohn’s disease (CD) are chronic inflammatory diseases with granulomatous nature. Here, we report a case of TA with a silent course of CD who was refractory to corticosteroid and immunosuppressive treatments and improved with adalimumab therapy.

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  1. Department of Rheumatology, Faculty of Medicine, Marmara University, Fevzi Cakmak Mah, Ust Kaynarca / Pendik, Istanbul, Turkey

    Neslihan Yilmaz, Meryem Can, Fatma Alibaz-Oner & Haner Direskeneli

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Yilmaz, N., Can, M., Alibaz-Oner, F. et al. Clinically silent Crohn’s disease in a patient with Takayasu’s Arteritis unresponsive to conventional therapies. Rheumatol Int 33, 3091–3093 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00296-012-2558-2

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