Successful Outcome of Human Metapneumovirus (hMPV) Pneumonia in a Lung Transplant Recipient Treated With Intravenous Ribavirin

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 862-864

  Raza, Kashif ^a   Ismailjee, Sameer B ^a   Crespo, Maria ^a   Studer, Sean M ^a   Sanghavi, Sonali ^a   Paterson, David L ^a   Kwak, Eun J ^a   Rinaldo Jr , Charles R ^a   Pilewski, Joseph M ^a   McCurry, Kenneth R ^a   Husain, Shahid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALEMTUZUMAB; CEFEPIME; COTRIMOXAZOLE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; METRONIDAZOLE; NORADRENALIN; PREDNISONE; RIBAVIRIN; STEROID; TACROLIMUS; VALGANCICLOVIR; VANCOMYCIN; VASOPRESSIN; VORICONAZOLE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CROHN DISEASE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DIARRHEA; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; FEMALE; FEVER; GASTROENTEROLOGY; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HUMAN METAPNEUMOVIRUS; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTENSION; LOADING DRUG DOSE; LUNG ASPERGILLOSIS; LUNG GRAFT REJECTION; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; PNEUMOCYSTOSIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SEPTIC SHOCK; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSBRONCHIAL BIOPSY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; BIOPSY; BRONCHOSCOPY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; METAPNEUMOVIRUS; MIDDLE AGED; PARAMYXOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; RIBAVIRIN;

EID: 34547559039     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2007.05.020     Document Type: Article

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