Pharmacokinetics of oral valganciclovir and intravenous ganciclovir administered to prevent cytomegalovirus disease in an adult patient receiving small-intestine transplantation [1]

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 2782-2783

  Fortún Abete, Jesús ^a   Martín Dávila, Pilar ^a   Moreno, S ^a   Quijano, Yolanda ^a   De Vicente, Emilio ^a   Pou, Leonor ^b  

^a HOSPITAL RAMÓN Y CAJAL   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIVIRUS AGENT; AZATHIOPRINE; BASILIXIMAB; CORTICOSTEROID; CREATININE; GANCICLOVIR; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; TACROLIMUS; VALGANCICLOVIR;

ADULT; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; CASE REPORT; CREATININE CLEARANCE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DESMOID TUMOR; DRUG BIOAVAILABILITY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG METABOLISM; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTESTINE TRANSPLANTATION; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LETTER; NEPHROTOXICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL INTESTINE; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS INFECTION;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADULT; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; AREA UNDER CURVE; BIOLOGICAL AVAILABILITY; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; FEMALE; GANCICLOVIR; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INTESTINE, SMALL;

EID: 3042616776     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.48.7.2782-2783.2004     Document Type: Letter

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