Clinical course of kidney transplant patients with acute rejection and BK virus replication following Campath therapy

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 348-353

  Kayler, Liise K ^a,b   Mohanka, Ravi ^a   Morgan, Claire ^a   Basu, Amit ^a   Shapiro, Ron ^a   Randhawa, Parmjeet S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alemtuzumab; Kidney transplantation; Polyoma virus

Indexed keywords

ALEMTUZUMAB; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; CIDOFOVIR; CREATININE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; LEFLUNOMIDE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE SODIUM SUCCINATE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PARACETAMOL; PREDNISONE; STEROID; TACROLIMUS; VIRUS DNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERITIS; ARTICLE; ATROPHY; BK VIRUS; CASE REPORT; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY FIBROSIS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; KIDNEY TUBULE DISORDER; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MONOTHERAPY; PLASMAPHERESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIBODIES, NEOPLASM; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BK VIRUS; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VIRUS INFECTIONS; VIREMIA; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 43749094986     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: 13990012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2008.00791.x     Document Type: Article

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