Aerosolized cyclosporine in lung recipients with refractory chronic rejection

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 153, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1451-1455

  Iacono, Aldo T ^a   Keenan, Robert J ^b   Duncan, Steven R ^b   Smaldone, Gerald C ^b   Dauber, James H ^b   Paradis, Irvin L ^b   Ohori, N Paul ^b   Grgurich, Wayne F ^b   Burckart, Gilbert J ^b   Zeevi, Adriana ^b   Delgado, Edgar ^b   O'riordan, Thomas G ^b   Zendarsky, Michelle M ^b   Yousem, Samuel A ^b   Griffith, Bartley P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN; CYCLOSPORIN A; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIBODY; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; TACROLIMUS; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; BRONCHIOLITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INHALATIONAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE;

EID: 0029940870     PISSN: 1073449X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1164/ajrccm.153.4.8616581     Document Type: Article

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