Post-transfusion acquired malaria complicating orthotopic liver transplantation

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 376-379

  Talabiska, David G ^b   Komar, Michael J ^b   Wytock, Dale H ^a   Rubin, Raymond A ^b  

^a GEISINGER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROQUINE; CYCLOSPORIN; GANCICLOVIR; PRIMAQUINE;

ADULT; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD TRANSFUSION REACTION; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALARIA; PLASMODIUM OVALE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; VIREMIA;

ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; CHLOROQUINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALARIA; MIDDLE AGED; PLATELET TRANSFUSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 0030046125     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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