Familial Mediterranean fever triggered by renal transplantation [16]

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 3000-3001

  Khosroshahi, Hamid Tayebi ^a   Tubbs, R Shane ^b   Shoja, Mohammadali Mohajel ^c  

^a TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b BIRMINGHAM CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; COLCHICINE; CYCLOSPORIN; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; DISEASE DURATION; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LETTER; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS NEPHRITIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYREXIA IDIOPATHICA; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS;

ADULT; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 33749648120     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfl282     Document Type: Letter

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