Infectious Complications in Three Double Hand Recipients: Experience From a Single Center

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 517-520

  Bonatti, H ^a   Brandacher, G ^a   Margreiter, R ^a   Schneeberger, S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALEMTUZUMAB; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; CIDOFOVIR; EVEROLIMUS; FLUCONAZOLE; FOSCARNET; GANCICLOVIR; HYPERIMMUNE GLOBULIN; ITRACONAZOLE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; METRONIDAZOLE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; PREDNISOLONE; RAPAMYCIN; STEROID; TACROLIMUS; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ALTERNARIA ALTERNATA; ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; COLITIS; COMPOSITE GRAFT; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE COURSE; DONOR; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FOREARM; GRAFT INFECTION; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT REJECTION; HAND SURGERY; HEADACHE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFECTION COMPLICATION; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTIOUS COMPLICATION; KIDNEY DISEASE; MYCOSIS; NEPHROTOXICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; UNIVERSITY; VIRUS INFECTION; WART VIRUS; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY TESTING; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 62849108249     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2009.01.014     Document Type: Article

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