Mycophenolate Mofetil-related gastrointestinal mucosal injury: Variable injury patterns, including graft-versus-host disease-like changes

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1367-1372

  Parfitt, Jeremy R ^a   Jayakumar, Saumya ^a   Driman, David K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Drugs; Gastrointestinal; MMF; Mycophenolate mofetil; Pathology; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; DRUG DERIVATIVE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID;

ADULT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON BIOPSY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUODENUM BIOPSY; ENTERITIS; ESOPHAGUS BIOPSY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL BIOPSY; GASTROINTESTINAL TOXICITY; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ILEUM; INTESTINE; INTESTINE CRYPT; INTESTINE EPITHELIUM; LAMINA PROPRIA; MALE; STOMACH BIOPSY; STOMACH DISEASE; ULCERATIVE ESOPHAGITIS; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DRUG EFFECT; GRAFT REJECTION; INTESTINE MUCOSA; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PATHOLOGY; STOMACH MUCOSA;

FEMALE; GASTRIC MUCOSA; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 52149112907     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: 15320979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PAS.0b013e31816bf3fe     Document Type: Article

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