Twenty-five consecutive isolated intestinal transplants in adult patients: A five-yr clinical experience

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 177-185

  Lauro, Augusto ^a   Zanfi, C ^a   Ercolani, G ^a   Dazzi, A ^a   Golfieri, L ^a   Amaduzzi, A ^a   Grazi, G L ^a   Vivarelli, M ^a   Cescon, M ^a   Varotti, G ^a   Del Gaudio, M ^a   Ravaioli, M ^a   Pironi, L ^a   Pinna, A D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Immunosuppression; Intestinal transplantation; Rejection

Indexed keywords

ALEMTUZUMAB; AMPHOTERICIN; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS ANTIBODY; DACLIZUMAB; GANCICLOVIR; GENTAMICIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; NEOMYCIN; OKT 3; RAPAMICINE; RAPAMYCIN; RITUXIMAB; STEROID; TACROLIMUS; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABDOMINAL WALL; ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CADAVER DONOR; CHRONIC GRAFT REJECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GARDNER SYNDROME; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; ILEOSTOMY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTESTINE BIOPSY; INTESTINE PSEUDOOBSTRUCTION; INTESTINE TRANSPLANTATION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LOADING DRUG DOSE; LOW DRUG DOSE; LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISEASE; MALE; MONOTHERAPY; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ENTEROPATHY; RECURRENT INFECTION; SEPSIS; SHORT BOWEL SYNDROME; SKIN FLAP; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT INDICATION; WOUND CLOSURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COLOSTOMY; ENTERITIS; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; ILEOSTOMY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INTESTINE, SMALL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION INJURIES; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SHORT BOWEL SYNDROME; SURGICAL MESH;

EID: 33947720973     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: 13990012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2007.00620.x     Document Type: Article

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