Cold agglutinin syndrome in pediatric liver transplant recipients

Pediatric Transplantation

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 931-936

  Wong, Wendy ^a   Merker, Jason D ^b   Nguyen, Christine ^a   Berquist, William ^a   Jeng, Michael ^a   Viele, Maurene ^b   Glader, Bertil ^a   Fontaine, Magali J ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anemia; Coombs positive hemolytic anemia; Liver transplant; Pediatric; Tacrolimus

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; TACROLIMUS; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COLD AGGLUTININ SYNDROME; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; HEMOLYSIS; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HUMAN; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STEROID THERAPY;

AGGLUTININS; ANEMIA, HEMOLYTIC, AUTOIMMUNE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INFANT; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PLASMAPHERESIS; SYNDROME;

EID: 35748979988     PISSN: 13973142     EISSN: 13993046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3046.2007.00795.x     Document Type: Article

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