Preliminary experience with midodrine in kidney/pancreas transplant patients with orthostatic hypotension

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 42-47

  Hurst, George C ^a   Somerville, Kenneth T ^b   Alloway, Rita R ^b   Gaber, A Osama ^b   Stratta, Robert J ^b  

^a Ochsner Multi Organ Transplant Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomic neuropathy; Hypertensicn; Kidney pancreas transplantation; Midodrine; Orthostatic hypotension

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; CEFAZOLIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CREATININE; GANCICLOVIR; HEPARIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MIDODRINE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; OKT 3; PREDNISONE; STEROID; TACROLIMUS; WARFARIN;

ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIARRHEA; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; NAUSEA; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIDE EFFECT; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; URINE RETENTION; VOMITING;

ADRENERGIC ALPHA-AGONISTS; ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; CREATININE; DIABETIC NEUROPATHIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOTENSION, ORTHOSTATIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDODRINE; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0033950880     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-0012.2000.140108.x     Document Type: Article

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