TTP/HUS occurring in a simultaneous pancreas/kidney transplant recipient after clopidogrel treatment: Evidence of a nonimmunologic etiology

Transplantation

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 885-887

  Evens, Andrew M ^a   Kwaan, Hau C ^a   Kaufman, Dixon B ^a   Bennett, Charles L ^a  

^a Lakeside VA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; CLOPIDOGREL; METALLOPROTEINASE; RAPAMYCIN; TACROLIMUS; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ENZYME DEGRADATION; GRAFT REJECTION; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PANCREAS RESECTION; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; THROMBOSIS; THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA;

EID: 0037183855     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-200209270-00026     Document Type: Article

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