Efficacy and safety of low-dose valganciclovir in the prevention of cytomegalovirus disease in adult liver transplant recipients

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 112-116

  Park, Jeong M ^a   Lake, Kathleen D ^a,b   Arenas, Juan D ^b   Fontana, Robert J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GANCICLOVIR; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; OKT 3; PREDNISONE; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY; TSUKUBAENOLIDE; VALGANCICLOVIR;

ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW TOXICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DONOR; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUTROPENIA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEROTYPE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADULT; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; COHORT STUDIES; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GANCICLOVIR; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PROBABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRANSPLANTATION IMMUNOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33645110301     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.20562     Document Type: Article

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