Acute Chagasic Myocardiopathy After Orthotopic Liver Transplantation With Donor and Recipient Serologically Negative for Trypanosoma cruzi: A Case Report

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 875-878

  Souza, F F ^a   Castro e Silva, O ^a   Marin Neto, J A ^a   Sankarankutty, A K ^a   Teixeira, A C ^a   Martinelli, A L C ^a   Gaspar, G G ^a   Melo, L ^a   Figueiredo, J F C ^a   Romano, M M D ^a   Maciel, B C ^a   Passos, A D C ^a   Rossi, M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BENZNIDAZOLE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CADAVER; CASE REPORT; CHAGAS DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART DILATATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; ORGAN DONOR; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RECIPIENT; SEROLOGY; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ADULT; ANIMALS; CHAGAS CARDIOMYOPATHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FATAL OUTCOME; HEART; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; NITROIMIDAZOLES; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TRYPANOCIDAL AGENTS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 42949164154     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2008.02.032     Document Type: Article

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