Severe neurotoxicity in tacrolimus-treated living kidney transplantation in two cases

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 433-434

  Veroux, Pierfrancesco ^a   Veroux, Massimiliano ^a   Puliatti, Carmelo ^a   Valvo, Mariachiara ^a   Macarone, Maurizio ^a   Cappello, Dario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

FK 506; Immunosuppression; Living related kidney transplantation; Neurotoxicity; Seizure; Tacrolimus; Therapy

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG EFFECT; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MYALGIA; NEUROTOXICITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; SIDE EFFECT; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREMOR; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; NEUROTOXICITY SYNDROMES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TACROLIMUS;

EID: 0344628758     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000074101     Document Type: Article

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