Sirolimus-related pulmonary toxicity mimicking 'asthma like' symptoms

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 13, Issue 38, 2007, Pages 5151-5153

  Gupte, Girish L ^a   Mahadevan, S ^a   Clarke, J R ^a   Alton, H ^a   Beath, S V ^a  

^a BIRMINGHAM CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asthma; Interstitial lung disease; Intestinal transplantation; Organ transplantation; Pulmonary toxicity; Sirolimus; Small bowel transplantation

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; BASILIXIMAB; BRONCHODILATING AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID DERIVATIVE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; PREDNISOLONE; RAPAMYCIN; TACROLIMUS;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; BREATHING RATE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HIRSCHSPRUNG DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPOMAGNESEMIA; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFLUENZA; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; INTESTINE PERFORATION; INTESTINE TRANSPLANTATION; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG TOXICITY; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NEUTROPENIA; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; SIDE EFFECT; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 34948829219     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v13.i38.5151     Document Type: Article

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