Everolimus-induced drug fever after heart transplantation [5]

Transplantation

Volumn 78, Issue SUPPL., 2004, Pages 303-304

  Dorschner, Lorenz ^a   Speich, Rudolf ^a   Ruschitzka, Frank ^a   Seebach, Jörg D ^a   Gallino, Augusto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b EOC Regional Hospital of Bellinzona   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATENOLOL; AZATHIOPRINE; CHLORTALIDONE; CYCLOSPORIN; EVEROLIMUS; RAPAMYCIN; STEROID; VANCOMYCIN; DRUG DERIVATIVE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ANAMNESIS; BLOOD EXAMINATION; CARDIOMYOPATHY; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG FEVER; FATIGUE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFECTION; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SERODIAGNOSIS; AGED; CASE REPORT; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; DRUG COMBINATION; FEVER; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE;

AGED; AZATHIOPRINE; CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEVER; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MALE; SIROLIMUS;

EID: 3943048701     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.TP.0000135116.17451.CB     Document Type: Letter

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