An Uncommon Presentation of an Uncommon Disease: Leprosy in a Heart Transplant Recipient

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 854-856

  Gasink, Leanne B ^a   Seymour, Christopher ^a   Blumberg, Emily A ^a   Goldberg, Lee R ^a   Fishman, Neil O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOFAZIMINE; CYCLOSPORIN; DAPSONE; ETHIONAMIDE; GANCICLOVIR; MINOCYCLINE; MOXIFLOXACIN; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; NITAZOXANIDE; PREDNISONE; VALGANCICLOVIR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; CARDIAC GRAFT REJECTION; CASE REPORT; CHILL; CLINICAL FEATURE; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DIARRHEA; ERYTHEMA; FEVER; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION DISTURBANCE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LEPROSY; MALAISE; MALE; NAUSEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN EDEMA; SKIN MANIFESTATION; WEAKNESS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

AGED; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; LEPROSTATIC AGENTS; LEPROSY, BORDERLINE; LEPROSY, LEPROMATOUS; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 33745480570     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2006.03.016     Document Type: Article

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