Fulminant toxoplasmosis in a heart transplant recipient

Pathology Research and Practice

Volumn 197, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 211-215

  Hermanns, B ^a   Brunn, A ^a   Schwarz, E R ^a   Sachweh, J S ^a   Seipelt, I ^a   Schrder, J M ^a   Vogel, U ^b   Schoendube, F A ^a   Buettner, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chemoprophylaxis; Endomyocardial biopsy; Heart transplantation; Polymerase chain reaction; Toxoplasmosis

Indexed keywords

ACUTE PHASE PROTEIN; GANCICLOVIR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; PREDNISOLONE; PYRIMETHAMINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CASE REPORT; CONVALESCENCE; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENCEPHALITIS; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LUNG INFILTRATE; MALE; MYOCARDITIS; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RECIPIENT; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

EID: 0035056240     PISSN: 03440338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1078/0344-0338-00036     Document Type: Article

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