Ocular complications in heart, lung and heart-lung recipients

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 310-312

  Akerele, Toks ^a   Lightman, Susan ^a  

^a Department of Clinical Ophthalmology ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ATRACONAZOLE; AZATHIOPRINE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOSPORIN A; GANCICLOVIR; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; INSULIN; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; NYSTATIN; SEPTIN; TACROLIMUS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; BLURRED VISION; CARDIAC GRAFT REJECTION; CATARACT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DRUG MEGADOSE; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; EYE DISEASE; EYE EXAMINATION; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; LUNG GRAFT REJECTION; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETINA DISEASE; STEROID THERAPY; EYE INFECTION; HEART LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CATARACT; EYE DISEASES; EYE INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART-LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETINAL DISEASES;

EID: 33947577914     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.2006.098087     Document Type: Article

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