Malaria in a Liver Transplant Recipient: A Case Report

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 3132-3134

  Mejia, G A ^a   Alvarez, C A ^a   Pulido, H H ^a   Ramirez B ^a   Cardozo, C ^a   Suarez Y ^a   Lobelo, R ^a   Sarquis, T ^a   Uribe, A M ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO SAN IGNACIO   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CHLOROQUINE; CLONAZEPAM; CYCLOSPORIN A; DACLIZUMAB; MEROPENEM; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

ABDOMINAL SCINTISCANNING; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL PONTINE MYELINOLYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONVULSION; DISEASE COURSE; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; GENERAL CONDITION IMPROVEMENT; GRAFT INFECTION; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; MALARIA; NEUROGENIC BLADDER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE CULTURE;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COLOMBIA; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALARIA, VIVAX; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33751104213     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2006.08.187     Document Type: Article

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