Steroid-resistant late acute rejection after a living donor liver transplantation: Case report and review of the literature

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 211, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 195-200

  Nakanishi, Chikashi ^a   Kawagishi, Naoki ^a   Sekiguchi, Satoshi ^a   Akamatsu, Yorihiro ^a   Sato, Kazushige ^a   Miyagi, Shigehito ^a   Takeda, Ikuo ^a   Hukushima, Keisuke ^a   Aiso, Takashi ^a   Sato, Akehumi ^a   Fujimori, Keisei ^a   Satomi, Susumu ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Deoxyspergualin; Late acute rejection; Liver transplantation; Steroid resistant

Indexed keywords

15 DEOXYSPERGUALIN; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; TACROLIMUS;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BILE DUCT ATRESIA; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CASE REPORT; CHOLANGITIS; CHOLEDOCHOJEJUNOSTOMY; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MALE; PORTOENTEROSTOMY;

ADULT; BILIRUBIN; ENZYMES; GRAFT REJECTION; GUANIDINES; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33847067853     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: 13493329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.211.195     Document Type: Article

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