Gastric perforation due to mucormycosis after heart-lung and heart transplantation

Transplantation

Volumn 66, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 932-935

  Knoop, C ^a   Antoine, M ^a   Vachiery J L ^a   Depre G ^a   Alonso Vega, C ^a   Struelens, M ^a   Van Laethem, J L ^a   Lingier, P ^a   Nagy, N ^a   Jacobs, F ^a   Kramer, M R ^b   Estenne, M ^a  

^a ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN; FLUCONAZOLE; GANCICLOVIR; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PIPERACILLIN; STEROID; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FATALITY; GASTRECTOMY; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFECTION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MUCORMYCOSIS; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH PERFORATION;

ADULT; AMPHOTERICIN B; ANIMALS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; FATAL OUTCOME; GANCICLOVIR; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART-LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUCORMYCOSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RHIZOPUS; STOMACH DISEASES;

EID: 0032532769     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199810150-00021     Document Type: Article

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