Microangiopathic haemolytic anaemia and thrombocytopenia following lung volume reduction surgery in a single lung transplant recipient on maintenance tacrolimus (FK506) therapy

Respirology

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 243-245

  Reid, David W ^a   Street, Alison ^a   Mansfield, Darren ^a   Chin, Weng ^a   Cole Sinclair, Marie ^a   Williams, Trevor J ^a   Snell, Gregory I ^a  

^a ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Lung transplantation; Microangiopathic haemolytic anaemia; Tacrolimus

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN A; METHOTREXATE; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; EMPHYSEMA; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR HEMOLYSIS; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG VOLUME; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA;

ANEMIA, HEMOLYTIC; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EMPHYSEMA; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMAPHERESIS; TACROLIMUS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 0037596570     PISSN: 13237799     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1843.2003.00449.x     Document Type: Article

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