Successful long-term treatment of post-transplant erythrocytosis with losartan

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 2495-2497

  Midtvedt, K ^a   Stokke, E S ^a   Hartmann, A ^a  

^a OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Angiotensin II antagonist; Erythrocytosis; Post transplant

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; HEMOGLOBIN; LOSARTAN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; OKT 3; PARATHYROID HORMONE; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG EFFICACY; ERYTHROCYTOSIS; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; PARATHYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; PHLEBOTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; UREMIA; VERTIGO;

EID: 0030453121     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.ndt.a027224     Document Type: Article

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