Switch to Everolimus for Sirolimus-Induced Pneumonitis in a Liver Transplant Recipient-Not All Proliferation Signal Inhibitors Are the Same: A Case Report

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 3500-3501

  De Simone, P ^a   Petruccelli, S ^a   Precisi, A ^a   Carrai, P ^a   Doria, R ^a   Menichetti, F ^a   Filipponi, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFIBROTIC AGENT; CYCLOSPORIN; EVEROLIMUS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; MEROPENEM; PEGINTERFERON; RAPAMYCIN; RIBAVIRIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MONOTHERAPY; ORTHOTOPIC TRANSPLANTATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA; SIROLIMUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 37049000138     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2007.09.040     Document Type: Article

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