Acute graft-versus-host disease after liver transplantation: Role of withdrawal of immunosuppression in therapeutic management

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 157-161

  Chinnakotla, Srinath ^a   Smith, Douglas M ^a   Domiati Saad, Rana ^a   Agura, Edward D ^a   Watkins, David L ^a   Netto, George ^a   Uemura, Tadahiro ^a   Sanchez, Edmund Q ^a   Levy, Marlon F ^a   Klintmalm, Goran B ^a  

^a BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN; HYDROCORTISONE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISOLONE; RAPAMYCIN; TACROLIMUS; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ACUTE GRAFT VERSUS HOST DISEASE; ADULT; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON DISEASE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DIARRHEA; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG PULSE THERAPY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HLA MATCHING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; ORGAN DONOR; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RETREATMENT; SEPSIS; SKIN BIOPSY; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ADULT; ANTIGENS, CD3; BIOPSY; CHOLANGITIS, SCLEROSING; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SKIN; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 33846295188     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.20982     Document Type: Article

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