Arterial rupture as the result of fungal arteritis after renal transplantation [5]

Transplantation

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 266-269

  Baccarani, Umberto ^a   Risaliti, Andrea ^a   Adani, Gian Luigi ^a   Sainz Barriga, Mauricio ^a   Bresadola, Fabrizio ^a   Viale, Pierluigi ^b   Scudeller, Luigia ^b   Beltrami, Carlo Alberto ^b   Scott, Caterina ^b   Montanaro, Domenico ^b   Mioni, Giuseppe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF UDINE   (Italy)

^b Pad Petracco ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; CYCLOSPORIN A; FLUCONAZOLE; INTERLEUKIN 2; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; RAPAMYCIN; STEROID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERITIS; ARTERY GRAFT; ARTERY PROSTHESIS; ARTERY RUPTURE; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; CADAVER DONOR; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CASE REPORT; CONTAMINATION; FUNGUS CULTURE; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMORRHAGIC SHOCK; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ILIAC ARTERY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A NEPHROPATHY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LETTER; MALE; MEMBRANOPROLIFERATIVE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; MYCOSIS; PATIENT MONITORING; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL ARTERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0037962263     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.TP.0000071951.60122.5F     Document Type: Letter

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