Blood ribavirin concentration in high-dose ribavirin for adenovirus-induced haemorrhagic cystitis - A case report

Journal of Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 75-78

  Homma, M ^a   Inoue, Y ^a   Hasegawa, Y ^a   Kojima, H ^a   Kohda, Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adenovirus infection; Anaemia; Blood ribavirin

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; PREDNISOLONE; RIBAVIRIN;

ADENOVIRUS; ADULT; ARTICLE; B CELL LYMPHOMA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG HALF LIFE; ERYTHROCYTE; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEMORRHAGIC CYSTITIS; HUMAN; MALE; MIGRAINE; PERIPHERAL BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TREATMENT DURATION;

ADENOVIRIDAE; ADENOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; ANEMIA; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CYSTITIS; DRUG MONITORING; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ERYTHROCYTES; HEMOGLOBINS; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RIBAVIRIN; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 38348998861     PISSN: 02694727     EISSN: 13652710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2710.2008.00874.x     Document Type: Article

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