Early onset of pulmonary mucormycosis with pulmonary vein thrombosis in a heart transplant recipient

Transplantation

Volumn 62, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1185-1186

  Muhm, Manfred ^a   Zuckermann, Andreas ^a   Prokesch, Rupert ^a   Pammer, Johannes ^a   Hiesmayr, Michael ^a   Haider, Wolfram ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; AZATHIOPRINE; CEFUROXIME; CILASTATIN PLUS IMIPENEM; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; KETOCONAZOLE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PHENPROCOUMON; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LUNG INFARCTION; LUNG INFECTION; MALE; MUCORMYCOSIS; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; RHIZOPUS; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUCORMYCOSIS; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; THROMBOPHLEBITIS;

EID: 0029858289     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199610270-00029     Document Type: Article

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