Severe infectious complications in a patient treated with rituximab for idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura [2]

Annals of Hematology

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 225-226

  Fianchi, Luana ^a   Rossi, Elena ^a   Murri, Rita ^a   Stefano, Valerio ^a   Pagano, Livio ^a   Leone, Giuseppe ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLARITHROMYCIN; CLOPIDOGREL; DEXAMETHASONE; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; PREDNISONE; RITUXIMAB; VORICONAZOLE;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADULT; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEVER; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; LETTER; LOW DRUG DOSE; LUNG ASPERGILLOSIS; LUNG INFECTION; LUNG INFILTRATE; LUNG LAVAGE; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; MALE; PURPURA, THROMBOCYTOPENIC, IDIOPATHIC; PYRIMIDINES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIAZOLES;

EID: 33846689061     PISSN: 09395555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00277-006-0206-1     Document Type: Letter

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