Clinical trial: Switch to combined mycophenolate mofetil and minimal dose calcineurin inhibitor in stable liver transplant patients - Assessment of renal and allograft function, cardiovascular risk factors and immune monitoring

Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1195-1208

  Cicinnati, V R ^a   Yu, Z ^a,b   Klein, C G ^a   Sotiropoulos, G C ^a   Saner, F ^a   Malago M ^a   Frilling, A ^a   Gerken, G ^a   Broelsch, C E ^a   Beckebaum, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; CREATININE; CYCLOSPORIN A; LIVER ENZYME; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; TACROLIMUS;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; DIARRHEA; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG INDUCED CANCER; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HERPES LABIALIS; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECURRENT INFECTION; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; RENAL PROTECTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIDE EFFECT; TREATMENT DURATION; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; AGED; CALCINEURIN; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CREATININE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 35448943140     PISSN: 02692813     EISSN: 13652036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2036.2007.03466.x     Document Type: Article

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