Pneumonitis associated with sirolimus: Clinical characteristics, risk factors and outcome - A single-centre experience and review of the literature

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 3631-3637

  Weiner, Stefan M ^a,b,d   Sellin, Lorenz ^a   Vonend, Oliver ^a   Schenker, Peter ^c   Buchner, Nikolaus J ^a   Flecken, Markus ^c   Viebahn, Richard ^c   Rump, Lars C ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c ST JOSEF HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^d KRANKENHAUS DER BARMHERZIGEN BRÜDER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Pancreas transplantation; Pneumonitis; Rapamycin; Renal transplantation; Risk factor; Sirolimus

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; CYCLOSPORIN A; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISONE; RAPAMYCIN; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY GRAFT; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA; RISK FACTORS; SIROLIMUS;

EID: 36749057967     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfm420     Document Type: Article

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