Detection of Amastigotes of Trypanosoma Cruzi in a Kidney Graft With Acute Dysfunction

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 885-887

  Arias, L F ^a   Duque, E ^b   Ocampo, C ^a   Henao, J ^a   Zuluaga, G ^a   Varela, G ^a   Carvajal, J ^a   Duque, J ^b   Robledo Villegas, M ^a   Arbelaez M ^a  

^a Hospital Universitario San Vicente de Paul   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZIMIDAZOLE; CREATININE; CYCLOSPORIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; NIFURTIMOX; PREDNISONE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; ALLOGRAFT; AMASTIGOTE; ARTICLE; ATROPHY; CASE REPORT; CHAGAS DISEASE; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; CYTOPLASM; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; GRAFT REJECTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY PARENCHYMA; KIDNEY TUBULE; LEUKOPENIA; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ADULT; ANIMALS; CHAGAS DISEASE; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LUPUS NEPHRITIS; MALE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 33646089670     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2006.02.033     Document Type: Article

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