Polyomavirus infection and acute vascular rejection in a kidney allograft: Coincidence or mimicry?

American Journal of Transplantation

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 501-504

  McGilvray, Ian D ^a   Lajoie, Ginette ^a   Humar, Atul ^a   Cattral, Mark S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Polyomavirus; Vascular rejection

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; GANCICLOVIR; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISONE; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFLAMMATION; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; POLYOMA VIRUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIRUS INFECTION;

ADULT; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; POLYOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS;

EID: 0037652243     PISSN: 16006135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-6143.2003.00066.x     Document Type: Article

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