Survival After Disseminated Invasive Aspergillosis in a Multivisceral Transplant Recipient

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 305-307

  Vianna, R ^a   Misra, V ^a   Fridell, J A ^a   Goldman, M ^a   Mangus, R S ^a   Tector, J ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; CASPOFUNGIN; GAMMA INTERFERON; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; TACROLIMUS; VORICONAZOLE;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN INFECTION; CASE REPORT; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONVALESCENCE; ENDOCARDITIS; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; LOW DRUG DOSE; LUNG MYCOSIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPLANTATION; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

ADULT; AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ASPERGILLOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; HEPATITIS B; HUMANS; INTESTINE, SMALL; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; STOMACH; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33846572330     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2006.10.015     Document Type: Article

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