Chronic Sensorimotor Polyneuropathy Associated With Tacrolimus Immunosuppression in Renal Transplant Patients: Case Reports

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 3465-3467

  Bhagavati, S ^a   Maccabee, P ^a   Muntean, E ^a   Sumrani, N B ^a  

^a Downstate Health Sciences University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DEMYELINATING NEUROPATHY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIMB WEAKNESS; MALE; PARESTHESIA; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; POLYNEUROPATHY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; SENSORIMOTOR NEUROPATHY; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; POLYNEUROPATHIES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TACROLIMUS;

EID: 37049032514     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2007.06.088     Document Type: Article

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