Late onset of severe graft-versus-host disease following liver transplantation

Transplant Immunology

Volumn 16, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 250-253

  Sun, Beicheng ^a   Zhao, Chaochen ^a   Xia, Yongxiang ^a   Li, Guoqiang ^a   Cheng, Feng ^a   Li, Jun ^a   Zhang, Feng ^a   Wang, Xuehao ^a  

^a NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Diarrhea; GVHD; Liver transplantation; Pathology

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CYCLOSPORIN; GANCICLOVIR; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MORPHINE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PIPERACILLIN; TSUKUBAENOLIDE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; CADAVER DONOR; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; COLON BIOPSY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; RISK FACTOR; SKIN BIOPSY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33751308431     PISSN: 09663274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trim.2006.08.006     Document Type: Article

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