Acute headache as a presenting symptom of tacrolimus encephalopathy

Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 74, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1126-1127

  Kiemeneij, I M ^a   De Leeuw, F E ^a,b   Ramos, L M P ^a   Van Gijn, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN; PREDNISONE; TACROLIMUS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN DISEASE; CASE REPORT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DROWSINESS; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HOMONYMOUS HEMIANOPIA; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; NAUSEA; NEUROTOXICITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VOMITING;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; CYCLOSPORINE; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREDNISONE; RECURRENCE; TACROLIMUS;

EID: 0043207310     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.74.8.1126     Document Type: Article

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