Hepatic involvement in a liver transplant recipient with disseminated cryptococcosis: Case report

Transplant Infectious Disease

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 179-182

  Lu, S ^a   Furth, E E ^b   Blumberg, E A ^b   Bing, Zhanyong ^b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cryptococcosis; Liver; Transplant

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; FLUCYTOSINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DEATH; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG LAVAGE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; FATAL OUTCOME; FLUCYTOSINE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 64249089519     PISSN: 13982273     EISSN: 13993062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3062.2009.00365.x     Document Type: Article

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