Mycophenolate mofetil in liver transplant patients with calcineurin-inhibitor-induced renal impairment

Annals of Hepatology

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 376-380

  Hin, Hin Ko ^a   Greanya, Erica ^b   Lee, Tim K ^c   Steinbrecher, Urs P ^a,d   Erb, Siegfried R ^a,d   Yoshida, Eric M ^a,d,e  

^a Division of Gastroenterology

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

^d British Columbia Transplant Society   (Canada)

^e Gordon and Leslie Diamond Health Care Centre Vancouver Coastal Health   (Canada)

Author keywords

Calcineurin inhibitors; Liver transplantation; Mycophenolate mofetil; Nephrotoxicity

Indexed keywords

AMINOTRANSFERASE; CREATININE; CYCLOSPORIN; LIVER ENZYME; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISONE; RAPAMYCIN; TACROLIMUS;

ABNORMALLY HIGH SUBSTRATE CONCENTRATION IN BLOOD; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS; BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIARRHEA; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MONOTHERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS; STOMACH DISCOMFORT; TREATMENT DURATION; WILCOXON SIGNED RANKS TEST;

AGED; CALCINEURIN; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY DISEASES; KIDNEY FUNCTION TESTS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 56749169677     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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