Retinal Injury as an Early Manifestation of Posttransplant Thrombotic Microangiopathy: Recovery With Plasma Exchanges and Conversion to Sirolimus-Case Report and Review of the Literature

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1272-1275

  Mohsin, N ^a   Nooyi, C ^a,b   Jha, A ^a   Budruddin, M ^a   Kamble, P ^a   Khalil, M ^a   Pakkyarra, A ^a   Mohammed, E ^a   Ahmed, H ^a   Daar, A ^c  

^a ROYAL HOSPITAL   (Oman)

^b Department of Ophthalmology Nahdha Hospital ^*  (Oman)

^c at the University of Toronto Wagner is also a faculty member of the Canadian Medical Associations' Physician Management Institute   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISOLONE; RAPAMYCIN; TACROLIMUS;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; PLASMAPHERESIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA INJURY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADOLESCENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; PLASMA EXCHANGE; PURPURA, THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC; RETINA; SIROLIMUS;

EID: 34248517211     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2007.03.086     Document Type: Article

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