Early infections after liver transplantation - Spectrum of microorganisms and risk factors;Fruhe postoperative Infektionen nach Lebertransplantation - Keimspektrum und Risikofaktoren

Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 108, Issue 24, 1996, Pages 795-801

  Gotzinger P ^a   Sautner, T ^a   Wamser, P ^a   Gebhard, Barbara ^a   Barlan, M ^a   Steininger, R ^a   Fugger R ^a   Muhlbacher F ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

bacterial, fungal, viral infection; liver transplantation; risk factors

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPHOTERICIN B; AZATHIOPRINE; COLISTIN; CYCLOSPORIN A; GENTAMICIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PREDNISOLONE; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MYCOSIS; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; RISK FACTOR; VIRUS INFECTION; CANDIDIASIS; CROSS INFECTION; MIDDLE AGED; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; SURGICAL INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CANDIDIASIS; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; VIRUS DISEASES;

EID: 0030604207     PISSN: 00435325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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