Hepatic mucormycosis in a renal transplant recipient [2]

Transplantation

Volumn 79, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1636-

  Mekeel, Kristin L ^a   Hemming, Alan W ^a   Reed, Alan I ^a   Matsumoto, Tadashi ^a   Fujita, Shiro ^a,b   Schain, Denise C ^a   Nelson, David R ^a   Dixon, Lisa R ^a   Fujikawa, Takahisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Department of Surgery ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; PREDNISONE;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; FUNGUS CULTURE; HEPATIC MUCORMYCOSIS; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY GRAFT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LAPAROTOMY; LETTER; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LOW DRUG DOSE; MUCORMYCOSIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PORTAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ZYGOMYCETES;

DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER DISEASES; MIDDLE AGED; MUCORMYCOSIS; SHOCK, SEPTIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 20544452314     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.TP.0000158715.12772.85     Document Type: Letter

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