Disseminated histoplasmosis in a haemodialysis patient on immunosuppression after graft failure

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 542-544

  Smak Gregoor, P J H ^a   Van Saase, J L C M ^a   Ingh, H F G M V D ^a   Weimar, W ^b   Kramer, P ^a  

^a St Clara Hospital   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Histoplasmosis; Immunnosuppression; Renal transplantation

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; AZATHIOPRINE; CALCIUM CARBONATE; GANCICLOVIR; IMIPENEM; PREDNISONE; RANITIDINE; RECOMBINANT ERYTHROPOIETIN; VITAMIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEVER; GRAFT FAILURE; HEMODIALYSIS; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; KIDNEY DISEASE; LEUKOPENIA; MALE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030012243     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.ndt.a027328     Document Type: Article

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