New-onset post-transplantation food allergy in children - Is it attributable only to the immunosuppressive protocol?

Pediatric Transplantation

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 63-69

  Levy, Yael ^a,b   Davidovits, Miriam ^a,b   Cleper, Roxana ^a   Shapiro, Rivka ^a,b  

^a SCHNEIDER CHILDREN S MEDICAL CENTER OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Children; Food allergy; Kidney; Liver; Tacrolimus; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOSPORIN A; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISONE; TACROLIMUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALAGILLE SYNDROME; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT ATRESIA; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; FOOD ALLERGY; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OXALOSIS 1; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FOOD HYPERSENSITIVITY; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INFANT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TACROLIMUS;

EID: 58149289526     PISSN: 13973142     EISSN: 13993046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3046.2007.00883.x     Document Type: Article

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