Cyclosporine-Associated Leukoencephalopathy in Organ Transplant Recipients: Experience of Three Clinical Cases

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 921-923

  Munoz R ^a,b   Espinoza, M ^a   Espinoza, O ^a   Andrade, A ^a   Bravo, E ^c   Gonzalez F ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL DEL SALVADOR   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^c Neurocritical Care Service   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOPURINOL; AMPICILLIN; AZATHIOPRINE; CEFTRIAXONE; CYCLOSPORIN A; GANCICLOVIR; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISONE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; TACROLIMUS; VANCOMYCIN;

ABDUCENS NERVE PARALYSIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALLOGRAFT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CONFUSION; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; GOUT; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; IRRITABILITY; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MENINGISM; NEUROTOXICITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CYCLOSPORINE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; HEPATITIS, AUTOIMMUNE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LEUKOENCEPHALITIS, ACUTE HEMORRHAGIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33646098686     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2006.02.038     Document Type: Article

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