Successful orthotopic liver transplantation after trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole associated fulminant liver failure

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 461-464

  Zaman, Fahim ^a   Ye, Gang ^a   Abreo, Kenneth ^a   Latif, Shahnila ^b   Zibari, Gazi B ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b Louisiana State University School of Medicine Shreveport   (United States)

Author keywords

Drug toxicity; Liver failure; Liver transplantation

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; AMMONIA; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CREATINE KINASE; CREATININE; PARACETAMOL;

ADULT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; AMMONIA BLOOD LEVEL; ANAPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CHOLESTASIS; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; EXTERNAL OTITIS; FEVER; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; HALLUCINATION; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INTERNATIONAL STANDARD UNIT; JAUNDICE; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEUKOPENIA; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TOXICITY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; MYALGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; RASH; SEROLOGY; SKIN MANIFESTATION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TOXOPLASMOSIS; ULTRASOUND;

ADULT; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION;

EID: 0141921376     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-0012.2003.00040.x     Document Type: Article

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