Conversion to Rapamycin in a Renal Transplant Patient With Von Hippel-Lindau Disease: Encouraging Results-A Case Report

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 3115-3116

  Henriquez, F ^a   Gallego, R ^a   Oliva, E ^a   Silva, D ^a   Vega, N ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE GRAN CANARIA DR NEGRÍN   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISONE; RAPAMYCIN;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; HEMANGIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY GRAFT; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; MALE; NEPHRECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VON HIPPEL LINDAU DISEASE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RENAL DIALYSIS; SIROLIMUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VON HIPPEL-LINDAU DISEASE;

EID: 55749098284     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2008.08.086     Document Type: Article

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