Monitoring cyclosporine using blood drawn via a central venous catheter [2]

Bone Marrow Transplantation

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1037-

  Donnelly, J P ^a   Blijlevens, N M A ^a   Schattenberg, A V M B ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN A; HLA A ANTIGEN; HLA B ANTIGEN; HLA DQ ANTIGEN; HLA DR ANTIGEN; ITRACONAZOLE;

ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD STORAGE; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG MONITORING; FLUORESCENCE POLARIZATION IMMUNOASSAY; GASTROINTESTINAL TOXICITY; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS CATHETER; LETTER; LYMPHOCYTE DEPLETION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; RELIABILITY; SIBLING; T LYMPHOCYTE; VEIN PUNCTURE;

BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; COHORT STUDIES; CYCLOSPORINE; DRUG MONITORING; HUMANS;

EID: 0344897758     PISSN: 02683369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bmt.1704273     Document Type: Letter

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