Pulmonary Aspergillosis and Central Nervous System Hemorrhage as Complications of Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia Treated with Corticosteroids

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 96, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 592-595

  Cleri, Dennis J ^a   Moser, Robert L ^a   Villota, Francisco J ^a   Wang, Yue ^a   Husain, Syed A ^a   Nadeem, Shahzinah ^a   Anjari, Tarek ^a   Sajed, Mohammad ^a  

^a ST FRANCIS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; CORTICOSTEROID; FAMOTIDINE; GATIFLOXACIN; HALOPERIDOL; HEPARIN; HYDROCORTISONE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; METOPROLOL; PARACETAMOL; SULTAMICILLIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HUMAN; LUNG ASPERGILLOSIS; MORTALITY; NEUTROPENIA; PHARYNGITIS; PLASMAPHERESIS; SPLENECTOMY; STEROID THERAPY; ASPERGILLOSIS; FATALITY; LUNG MYCOSIS;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADULT; ANEMIA, HEMOLYTIC, AUTOIMMUNE; ASPERGILLOSIS; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL;

EID: 0041883434     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.SMJ.0000056645.47125.96     Document Type: Article

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