Induction immunosuppression with rabbit antithymocyte globulin in pediatric liver transplantation

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1210-1214

  Shah, Ashesh ^a   Agarwal, Avinash ^a   Mangus, Richard ^a   Lim, Joel ^a   Fridell, Jonathan ^a   Vianna, Rodrigo ^a   Tector, A Joseph ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CREATININE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS ANTIBODY; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; OKT 3; PREDNISONE; TACROLIMUS; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY; VALGANCICLOVIR;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT ATRESIA; CADAVER DONOR; CHILD; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT INFECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFANT; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISEASE; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; MALE; METABOLIC DISORDER; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; ANTILYMPHOCYTE SERUM; CHEMOPREVENTION; CHILD; CREATININE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; RABBITS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 33746881774     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.20896     Document Type: Article

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