Toxoplasmosis-associated hemophagocytic syndrome in renal transplantation

Transplant International

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 78-80

  Segall, Liviu ^a   Moal, Marie Christine ^a   Doucet, Laurent ^a   Kergoat, Nathalie ^b   Bourbigot, Bernard ^a  

^a SERVICE DE RHUMATOLOGIE   (France)

^b BREST UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Hemophagocytic syndrome; Renal transplantation; Toxoplasmosis

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AZATHIOPRINE; CILASTATIN PLUS IMIPENEM; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; SPIRAMYCIN; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD SMEAR; CASE REPORT; CELL PROLIFERATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEATH; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENCEPHALITIS; FEVER; HEMOPHAGOCYTIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY GRAFT; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; MALE; PANCYTOPENIA; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; SEPTIC SHOCK; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; ANIMAL; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; FATALITY; HEMOPHAGOCYTIC LYMPHOHISTIOCYTOSIS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; TOXOPLASMA;

ADULT; ANIMALS; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LYMPHOHISTIOCYTOSIS, HEMOPHAGOCYTIC; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

EID: 33644877709     PISSN: 09340874     EISSN: 14322277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-2277.2005.00179.x     Document Type: Article

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