Aerosolized pentamidine as alternative primary prophylaxis against Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in adult hepatic and renal transplant recipients

Chest

Volumn 109, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1250-1255

  Saukkonen, Kai ^a   Garland, Robert ^a   Koziel, Henry ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

aerosolized pentamidine; efficacy; immunosuppression; kidney transplant; liver transplant; Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia; primary prophylaxis; trimethoprim sulfamethoxazole

Indexed keywords

COTRIMOXAZOLE; PENTAMIDINE;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSPASM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COUGHING; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LEUKOPENIA; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; NAUSEA; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; SEIZURE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 0029868003     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.109.5.1250     Document Type: Article

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