Refractory adenovirus infection after simultaneous kidney-pancreas transplantation: Successful treatment with intravenous ribavirin and pooled human intravenous immunoglobulin

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 2436-2438

  Emovon, Osemwegie E ^a   Lin, Angello ^a   Howell, David N ^b   Afzal, Fuad ^a   Baillie, Mark ^a   Rogers, Jeffrey ^a   Baliga, Prabhakar K ^a   Chavin, Kenneth ^a   Nickeleit, Volker ^c   Rajagapalan, P R ^a   Self, Sally ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adenovirus infection; Allograft dysfunction; Anti viral therapy granulomatous interstitial nephritis; Kidney transplantation; Viral inclusions

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; INSULIN; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; NYSTATIN; PREDNISONE; RAPAMYCIN; RIBAVIRIN; TACROLIMUS;

ADENOVIRUS; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; FEMALE; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY INFECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LABORATORY TEST; NONHUMAN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS PATHOGENESIS;

ADENOVIRUS INFECTIONS, HUMAN; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; RIBAVIRIN;

EID: 10744230256     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfg365     Document Type: Article

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