Kidney transplantation in patients suffering from hereditary complete complement C4 deficiency

Transplant International

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1044-1049

  Falkeis, Christina ^a   Mark, Walter ^b   Sergi, Consolato ^a   Heininger, Dorothea ^c   Neumair, Friedrich ^d   Scheiring, Johanna ^b   Lhotta, Karl ^c  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^c INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^d Hospital Brixen   (Italy)

Author keywords

Complement C4; Infectious complications; Kaposi's sarcoma; Kidney transplantation

Indexed keywords

ALEMTUZUMAB; AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; AZATHIOPRINE; CEFTRIAXONE; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C4; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN A; DACLIZUMAB; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; ITRACONAZOLE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISOLONE; STEROID; TACROLIMUS; VALGANCICLOVIR;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; ANAPHYLACTOID PURPURA; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS; BRONCHITIS; CASE REPORT; CHICKENPOX; CHRONIC ALLOGRAFT NEPHROPATHY; CHRONIC GRAFT REJECTION; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DIALYSIS; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; FEMALE; GENETIC DISORDER; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HAEMOPHILUS PARAINFLUENZAE; HEREDITARY COMPLETE COMPLEMENT C4 DEFICIENCY; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFECTION RISK; INFECTIOUS COMPLICATION; KAPOSI SARCOMA; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MENINGITIS; MONOTHERAPY; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPLEMENT C4; FEMALE; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS, MEMBRANOPROLIFERATIVE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PURPURA, SCHOENLEIN-HENOCH;

EID: 35748937026     PISSN: 09340874     EISSN: 14322277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-2277.2007.00555.x     Document Type: Article

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