Neuromuscular complications associated with liver transplantation

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 696-700

  Wijdicks, Eelco F M ^a   Litchy, William J ^a   Wiesner, Russell H ^a   Krom, Ruud A F ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

liver transplantation; mononeuropathy; myopathy; neurologic sequelae; quadriplegia

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; CYCLOSPORIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYOSIN; TACROLIMUS;

ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ARTICLE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GRAFT REJECTION; HEPATITIS C; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MONONEUROPATHY; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MUSCLE NECROSIS; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PRIMARY SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHABDOMYOLYSIS;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; FEMORAL NERVE; HERPES ZOSTER; HORNER SYNDROME; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LUMBOSACRAL PLEXUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NECROSIS; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASES; PERONEAL NERVE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUADRIPLEGIA; RADIAL NERVE; RADICULOPATHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0029864436     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4598(199606)19:6<696::AID-MUS2>3.0.CO;2-5     Document Type: Article

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