Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in patients with solid organ transplantation: Report of five cases;Neumonia por Pneumocystis carinii en pacientes con trasplante de organo solido: Presentacion de cinco casos

Revista Clinica Espanola

Volumn 197, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 31-34

  Ruiz Ruiz, J ^a,b   Yebra Bango, M ^a   Fernandez Fernandez J ^a   Alonso Pulpon L ^a   Cuervas Mons Martinez V ^a   Besada Estevez E ^a   Daza Perez R M ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO PUERTA DE HIERRO   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL DE MÓSTOLES   (Spain)

Author keywords

co trimoxazole; heart transplantation; liver transplantation; Pneumocystis carinii; pneumonia; renal transplantation

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOSPORIN A; DOXORUBICIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; PREDNISONE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; GANCICLOVIR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; CASE REPORT; DRUG COMBINATION; FATALITY; MIDDLE AGED; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REVIEW;

ADULT; AGED; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; GANCICLOVIR; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION;

EID: 0030640597     PISSN: 00142565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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