Pure red cell aplasia following pegylated interferon α treatment [2]

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 117, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 619-620

  Arcasoy, Murat O ^b   Rockey, Don C ^a   Heneghan, Michael A ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA2 INTERFERON; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; PEGINTERFERON; PREDNISOLONE; RAPAMYCIN; TACROLIMUS;

ANEMIA; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ERYTHROCYTE APLASIA; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; LEUKOPENIA; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PANCYTOPENIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; INTERFERON ALFA-2B; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RED-CELL APLASIA, PURE;

EID: 4644225741     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2004.04.023     Document Type: Letter

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