Successful liver transplantation in a kidney and pancreas allograft recipient with fulminant herpes simplex virus type 2 hepatitis

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 3334-3337

  Ganner, Athina ^a   Lee, Young Min A ^b   Busche, Caroline ^a   Schmitt Graeff, Annette ^a   Encke, Jens ^b   Walz, Gerd ^a   Gerke, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Immunosuppression; Multi organ failure; Multi organ transplantation; Sepsis; Viral infection

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; COTRIMOXAZOLE; FLUCONAZOLE; FOSCARNET; HYDROCORTISONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; PIPERACILLIN; PREDNISONE; STEROID; TACROLIMUS; TAZOBACTAM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEMODIALYSIS; HEPATIC COMA; HEPATITIS; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 2; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; NEPHROTOXICITY; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL COUNSELING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIRUS LOAD;

ACYCLOVIR; ADULT; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; FEMALE; FOSCARNET; HEPATITIS, VIRAL, HUMAN; HERPES SIMPLEX; HERPESVIRUS 2, HUMAN; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 36749099085     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfm550     Document Type: Article

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