Varicella Infection in Adult Renal Allograft Recipients: Experience at One Center

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 2416-2418

  Rodriguez Moreno, A ^a   Sanchez Fructuoso, A I ^a   Calvo, N ^a   Ridao, N ^a   Conesa, J ^a   Marques, M ^a   Prats, D ^a   Barrientos, A ^a  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNICO SAN CARLOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN; GANCICLOVIR; HERPES ZOSTER IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; PREDNISONE; RAPAMYCIN; TSUKUBAENOLIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FEVER; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HERPES ZOSTER; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; MALAISE; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEROCONVERSION; SERODIAGNOSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; VACCINATION; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VESICULAR RASH; VISCERA;

ADULT; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; HERPES ZOSTER; HERPESVIRUS 3, HUMAN; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 33750616880     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2006.08.060     Document Type: Article

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