A standardized protocol for the treatment fo severe pneumonia in kidney transplant recipients

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 450-454

  Sileri, Pierpaolo ^a   Pursell, Kenneth J ^a   Coady, Noreen T ^a   Giacomoni, Alessandro ^a   Berliti, Stefano ^a   Tzoracoleftherakis, Evangelos ^a   Testa, Guiliano ^a   Benedetti, Enrico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

BAL; Infections; Kidney transplantation; Pneumonia; Protocol

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZATHIOPRINE; CEFAZOLIN; CLOTRIMAZOLE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOSPORIN A; ERYTHROMYCIN; GANCICLOVIR; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; OKT 3; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; PREDNISONE; STEROID; TACROLIMUS; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CELL COUNT; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; CYTOPATHOLOGY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG INFILTRATE; LUNG LAVAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; MORTALITY; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STANDARDIZATION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL;

EID: 0036903642     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-0012.2002.02079.x     Document Type: Article

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