A pitfall in screening with decoy cells after simultaneous pancreas kidney transplantation

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 833-836

  Lard, L R ^a   Van Der Boog, P J M ^a   Veselic, M ^a   Vossen, A C T M ^a   De Fijter, J W ^a   Groeneveld, J H M ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

BK virus; Decoy cells; Kidney pancreas transplantation

Indexed keywords

CIDOFOVIR; CYCLOSPORIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PANCREAS ENZYME; PREDNISOLONE; TACROLIMUS; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ECHOGRAPHY; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; GRANULOCYTE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKORRHEA; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PANCREAS DISEASE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYOMA VIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; URINALYSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VIRUS INFECTION;

BK VIRUS; CELLS, CULTURED; ENZYMES; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GRANULOCYTES; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREAS; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; POLYOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TUMOR VIRUS INFECTIONS; URINE;

EID: 56349168498     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: 13990012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2008.00874.x     Document Type: Article

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