Uneventful re-treatment with cyclosporin in two cases of cyclosporin-induced haemolytic uraemic syndrome

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1864-1865

  Guella, Adnane ^a   Daoud, Majed ^a   Al Dayel, Adel ^a  

^a King Fahd Military Medical Complex   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Cyclosporin; Haemolytic uraemic syndrome; Renal transplantation; Thrombotic microangiopathy

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CYCLOSPORINE; FEMALE; HEMOLYTIC-UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMAPHERESIS;

EID: 0031779278     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/13.7.1864     Document Type: Article

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