End-stage renal disease due to polyomavirus in a cardiac transplant patient

Nature Clinical Practice Nephrology

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 393-396

  Maddirala, Supriya ^a,c   Pitha, Jan V ^b   Cowley Jr , Benjamin D ^b   Haragsim, Lukas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA HEALTH JACKSONVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac transplantation; End stage renal disease; Immunosuppression; Polyomavirus associated nephropathy

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; CYCLOSPORIN A; GANCICLOVIR; METHOTREXATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; OKT 3; PREDNISONE; PROTEIN; TACROLIMUS; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CARDIAC GRAFT REJECTION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; GENERAL CONDITION DETERIORATION; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART GRAFT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LEG SWELLING; MALE; ORTHOTOPIC TRANSPLANTATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYOMA VIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN URINE LEVEL; URINALYSIS; URINE SEDIMENT;

AUTOPSY; CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FATAL OUTCOME; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY FUNCTION TESTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RENAL DIALYSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 34250861470     PISSN: 17458323     EISSN: 17458331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpneph0512     Document Type: Article

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