Late onset Pneumocystis pneumonia in renal transplantation after long-term immunosuppression with belatacept: Case report

Transplant Infectious Disease

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 171-174

  Haidinger, M ^a   Hecking, M ^a   Memarsadeghi, M ^a   Weichhart, T ^a   Werzowa, J ^a   Horl W H ^a   Säemann, Marcus D ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Costimulation blockade; Immunosuppression; Infectious complications; Kidney transplantation

Indexed keywords

BELATACEPT; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOSPORIN A; GANCICLOVIR; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PENCICLOVIR; VALGANCICLOVIR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DEATH; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; HERPES SIMPLEX; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFECTION RISK; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECI; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMATITIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

FATAL OUTCOME; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; IMMUNOCONJUGATES; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECII; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SUPERINFECTION;

EID: 64249161082     PISSN: 13982273     EISSN: 13993062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3062.2009.00366.x     Document Type: Article

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