Fatal Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection in a Lung Transplant Recipient

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1176-1178

  Boedefeld, Robyn L ^a   Eby, Joshua ^a   Boedefeld II, William M ^a   Stanley, Dirk ^a   Lau, Christine L ^a   Kern, John A ^a   Kozower, Benjamin D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; AZITHROMYCIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CORTICOSTEROID; DACLIZUMAB; DAPSONE; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; PYRAZINAMIDE; TACROLIMUS; VALGANCICLOVIR; VORICONAZOLE;

ACID FAST BACTERIUM; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEART ABSCESS; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEG EDEMA; LUNG GRAFT REJECTION; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PERICARDIUM; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSBRONCHIAL BIOPSY;

AGED; AUTOPSY; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PERICARDIUM; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 52949098660     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2008.07.009     Document Type: Article

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