Usefulness of beta-D glucan in diagnosing Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and monitoring its treatment in a living-donor liver-transplant recipient

Journal of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 308-311

  Kawagishi, Naoki ^a   Miyagi, Shigehito ^a   Satoh, Kazushige ^a   Akamatsu, Yorihiro ^a   Sekiguchi, Satoshi ^a   Satomi, Susumu ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Beta D glucan; Diagnosis; Living donorliver transplantation; PCR; Pneumocystis carinii

Indexed keywords

BETA GLUCAN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; FLUCONAZOLE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; COUGHING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE MARKER; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; FUNGUS CULTURE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEPATITIS B; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LIVER ATROPHY; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER INJURY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MALE; PATIENT MONITORING; PLASMAPHERESIS; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; BETA-GLUCANS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DNA, FUNGAL; HUMANS; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34249867150     PISSN: 09441166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00534-006-1135-z     Document Type: Article

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