Reversible chronic pulmonary fibrosis associated with MMF in a pediatric patient: A case report

Pediatric Transplantation

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 228-231

  Reynolds, B C ^a   Paton, J Y ^b   Howatson, A G ^a   Ramage, I J ^a  

^a ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Mycophenolate mofetil; Paediatrics; Pulmonary fibrosis; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISOLONE; TACROLIMUS;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC MINERALIZING PULMONARY ELASTOSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELASTOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG FIBROSIS; MALE; NEPHROBLASTOMA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SCHOOL CHILD; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

CALCINOSIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INFANT; KIDNEY; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; NEPHRECTOMY; PULMONARY FIBROSIS; REMISSION INDUCTION; RENAL DIALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WILMS TUMOR;

EID: 40149112023     PISSN: 13973142     EISSN: 13993046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3046.2007.00707.x     Document Type: Article

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