Neuropsychiatric side effects of FK506 vs. cyclosporine A: First-week postoperative findings

Psychosomatics

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 565-569

  Dimartini, Andrea F ^a   Trzepacz, Paula T ^b   Pajer, Kathleen A ^b   Faett, Donna ^b   Fung, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN A; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NEUROTOXICITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RATING SCALE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 0030660225     PISSN: 00333182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0033-3182(97)71402-6     Document Type: Article

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