Tacrolimus Intoxication Resolved by Gastrointestinal Bleeding: Case Report

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 522-525

  Renner, F C ^a   Staak, A ^a   Bur am Orde, L ^a   Walmrath, H D ^a   Weimer, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL GIESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CATECHOLAMINE DERIVATIVE; CYTOCHROME P450; DIGITOXIN; GANCICLOVIR; HEPARIN; IMIPENEM; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; METOPROLOL; NORADRENALIN; PREDNISOLONE; SIMVASTATIN; TACROLIMUS; THYROXINE; TORASEMIDE; VALGANCICLOVIR; VANCOMYCIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DRUG ACCUMULATION; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG INTOXICATION; DRUG PROTEIN BINDING; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEMORRHOID HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER FAILURE; NEUROTOXICITY; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETREATMENT; SEPTIC SHOCK;

AGED; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMOFILTRATION; HEMOGLOBINS; HEMORRHOIDS; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; POLYCYSTIC KIDNEY, AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RENAL DIALYSIS; SHOCK, SEPTIC; TACROLIMUS;

EID: 33847733970     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2006.12.022     Document Type: Article

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