Corticosteroid-free strategies in liver transplantation

Drugs

Volumn 66, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 1853-1862

  O'Grady, John G ^a  

^a KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA2B INTERFERON; AZATHIOPRINE; BASILIXIMAB; CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOSPORIN; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PLACEBO; PREDNISOLONE; RAPAMYCIN; TSUKUBAENOLIDE;

CLINICAL TRIAL; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG BIOAVAILABILITY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; DRUG MIXTURE; DRUG USE; DYSLIPIDEMIA; GROWTH RETARDATION; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFECTION; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; OBESITY; OSTEOPENIA; REVIEW;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; TISSUE DONORS;

CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS;

EID: 33750080739     PISSN: 00126667     EISSN: 00126667     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00003495-200666140-00006     Document Type: Review

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