Impact of solid organ transplantation and immunosuppression on fever, leukocytosis, and physiologic response during bacterial and fungal infections

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 260-265

  Sawyer, Robert G ^a,b   Crabtree, Traves D ^a   Gleason, Thomas G ^a   Antevil, Jared L ^a   Pruett, Timothy L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fever; Infection; Response; Solid organ transplantation

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; STEROID; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEVER; HEART LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFLAMMATION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MYCOSIS; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL PATIENT;

APACHE; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEVER; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MYCOSES; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0032986932     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-0012.1999.130307.x     Document Type: Article

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