Central nervous system infections in heart transplant recipients

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 64, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1715-1720

  Van De Beek, Diederik ^a   Patel, Robin ^a   Daly, Richard C ^a   McGregor, Christopher G A ^a   Wijdicks, Eelco F M ^a  

^a Mayo Clinic   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCAL MENINGITIS; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEART GRAFT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSIVE MULTIFOCAL LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTIONS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 37148998907     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: 15383687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.64.12.noc70065     Document Type: Article

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