Successful steroid withdrawal in lung transplant recipients: Result of a pilot study

Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 99, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 596-601

  Shitrit, David ^a   Bendayan, Daniele ^a   Sulkes, Jaqueline ^a   Bar Gil Shitrit, Ariella ^b   Huerta, Michael ^b   Kramer, Mordechai R ^a  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b SHAARE ZEDEK MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Pulmonary function; Steroid withdrawal; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CORTICOSTEROID; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOSPORIN; GANCICLOVIR; ITRACONAZOLE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; NYSTATIN; PREDNISONE; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EMPHYSEMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG GRAFT REJECTION; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; WEIGHT GAIN;

AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHOLESTEROL; CYCLOSPORINE; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; PULMONARY EMPHYSEMA; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; TRANSPLANTATION IMMUNOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 16344372507     PISSN: 09546111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rmed.2004.09.023     Document Type: Article

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