Flucloxacillin-induced aplastic anaemia and liver failure

Transplant International

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 487-489

  Dobson, Jacqui L ^a   Angus, Peter W ^a   Jones, Robert ^a   Crowiey, Peter ^a   Gow, Paul J ^a  

^a AUSTIN HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aplastic anaemia; Donor leucocytes; Flucloxacillin; Fulminant hepatic failure; Liver transplantation; Neutropenia

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROPOIETIN; FLUCLOXACILLIN; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; APLASTIC ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTE TRANSFUSION; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; NEUTROPENIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN INFECTION; BACTERIAL SKIN DISEASE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; NEUTROPHIL; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE;

ADULT; ANEMIA, APLASTIC; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; FEMALE; FLOXACILLIN; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTE TRANSFUSION; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; NEUTROPHILS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; SKIN DISEASES, BACTERIAL;

EID: 20444438440     PISSN: 09340874     EISSN: 14322277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-2277.2004.00014.x     Document Type: Article

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