Bullous pemphigoid after liver transplantation for liver failure

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1705-1710

  Kerkar, Nanda ^a   Cohen, Steven ^b   Dugan, Christina ^a   Morotti, Raffaella A ^a   Phelps, Robert G ^a   Herold, Betsy ^a   Shneider, Benjamin ^a   Emre, Sukru ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; AMOXICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZATHIOPRINE; DAPSONE; FLUCONAZOLE; FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; GANCICLOVIR; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; LACTULOSE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MICROSOME ANTIBODY; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; PREDNISONE; RAPAMYCIN; TSUKUBAENOLIDE;

ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CELLULITIS; COOMBS POSITIVE HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; GIANT CELL; GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFANT; KIDNEY MICROSOME; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER MICROSOME; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MOUTH ULCER; NEUTROPENIA; PEMPHIGOID; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SKIN BIOPSY;

ANEMIA, HEMOLYTIC, AUTOIMMUNE; GIANT CELLS; HEPATITIS; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INFANT; LIVER; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PEMPHIGOID, BULLOUS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION;

EID: 33750974177     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.20930     Document Type: Article

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