Treatment of central pontine myelinolysis with plasmapheresis and immunoglobulins in liver transplant patient

Transplant International

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 390-391

  Saner, Fuat H ^a   Koeppen, Susanne ^a   Meyer, Marco ^a   Kohnle, Matthias ^a   Herget Rosenthal, Stefan ^a   Sotiropoulos, Georgios C ^a   Paul, Andreas ^a   Radtke, Arnold ^a   Malagó, Massimo ^a   Broelsch, Christoph E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; LINEZOLID;

ADULT; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ATAXIA; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL PONTINE MYELINOLYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DYSARTHRIA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LETTER; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS;

HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYELINOLYSIS, CENTRAL PONTINE; PLASMAPHERESIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 40449111063     PISSN: 09340874     EISSN: 14322277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-2277.2007.00608.x     Document Type: Letter

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