Rheumatoid leptomeningitis after heart transplantation

Neurology

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 948-949

  Claassen, Jan ^a,b   Dwyer, Edward ^a   Maybaum, Simon ^a   Elkind, M S V ^a  

^a New York Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

^b NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN; ETIRACETAM; GABAPENTIN; GADOLINIUM; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; PREDNISONE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIAC GRAFT REJECTION; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CASE REPORT; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DISEASE COURSE; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LEPTOMENINX; LEUKOPENIA; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RHEUMATOID LEPTOMENINGITIS; SEIZURE; TENOSYNOVITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; MENINGITIS;

AGED; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; FEMALE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MENINGITIS;

EID: 33645811491     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000203516.48914.50     Document Type: Article

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