Belatacept as maintenance immunosuppression for postrenal transplant de novo drug-induced thrombotic microangiopathy

American Journal of Transplantation

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 424-427

  Ashman, N ^a   Chapagain, A ^a   Dobbie, H ^a   Raftery, M J ^a   Sheaff, M T ^a   Yaqoob, M M ^a  

^a ROYAL LONDON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ciclosporin; Renal transplantation; Sirolimus; Tacrolimus; Thrombotic microangiopathy

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; BELATACEPT; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN; DACLIZUMAB; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; LINEZOLID; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISOLONE; RAPAMYCIN; TACROLIMUS; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CATHETER REMOVAL; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTINUOUS AMBULATORY PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFECTION; INFECTION PREVENTION; KIDNEY GRAFT; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOPENIA; LIVING DONOR; PERITONITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS;

EID: 58849159584     PISSN: 16006135     EISSN: 16006143     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2008.02482.x     Document Type: Article

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