Neurological complications of liver transplantation in adult versus pediatric patients

Transplantation

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 1994, Pages 447-450

  Menegaux, Fabrice ^a   Keeffe, Emmet B ^a   Andrews, Brian T ^a   Egawa, Hiroto ^a   Monge, Humberto ^a   Concepcion, Waldo ^a   So, Samuel K ^a   Esquivel, Carlos O ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN; OKT 3; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; AGING; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG EFFECT; GRAFT REJECTION; HEADACHE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUROTOXICITY; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; TREMOR;

ADULT; BRAIN DISEASES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INCIDENCE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0028048083     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199408270-00010     Document Type: Article

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