Diagnosis and Treatment for Graft-Versus-Host Disease After Liver Transplantation: Two Case Reports

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1696-1698

  Wang, B ^a   Lu, Y ^a   Yu, L ^a   Liu, C ^a   Wu, Z ^a   Liu, X ^a  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN; DACLIZUMAB; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CASE REPORT; DIARRHEA; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; FEVER; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEUKOPENIA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; SKIN BIOPSY; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34250175751     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2007.02.078     Document Type: Article

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