Disseminated histoplasmosis in a liver transplant recipient

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 677-681

  Oh, Young S ^a   Lisker Melman, Mauricio ^a   Korenblat, Kevin M ^a   Zuckerman, Gary R ^a   Crippin, Jeffrey S ^a,b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; AMPHOTERICIN B; AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; ITRACONAZOLE; MESALAZINE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; OXYBUTYNIN; PREDNISONE; TAMSULOSIN; TSUKUBAENOLIDE;

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COLON BIOPSY; COLON ULCER; DIARRHEA; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; GRAFT FAILURE; HISTOPLASMA CAPSULATUM; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTESTINE ENDOSCOPY; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERICARDITIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIMARY SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; STANDING; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CHOLANGITIS, SCLEROSING; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMANS; ITRACONAZOLE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERICARDITIS; PLEURAL EFFUSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33645544873     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.20742     Document Type: Article

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