Durable cure of mucormycosis involving allograft and native lungs

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 615-618

  Zander, Dani S ^a   Cicale, Michael J ^a   Mergo, Patricia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN; FLUCONAZOLE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE SODIUM SUCCINATE; PREDNISONE;

ADULT; ALLOGRAFT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MICROSCOPY; MUCORMYCOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIBIOTICS, ANTIFUNGAL; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; DRUG ADMINISTRATION ROUTES; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; FLUCONAZOLE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MUCORMYCOSIS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 0034124858     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1053-2498(00)00103-0     Document Type: Article

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