Steatorrhoea complicating post-infectious diarrhoea in a renal transplant patient on mycophenolate mofetil therapy

Clinical and Experimental Nephrology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 182-184

  Tagboto, Senyo ^a   Akhtar, Farman ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b WATERFORD REGIONAL HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Malabsorption; Mycophenolate mofetil; Steatorrhoea; Villous atrophy

Indexed keywords

CIPROFLOXACIN; CREATININE; CYCLOSPORIN A; ERYTHROMYCIN; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER;

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIARRHEA; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ENTERITIS; FECES ANALYSIS; GASTRITIS; GRAFT REJECTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFECTIOUS DIARRHEA; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALABSORPTION; MALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; SIGMOIDOSCOPE; STEATORRHEA; VOMITING;

CAMPYLOBACTER INFECTIONS; DIARRHEA; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALABSORPTION SYNDROMES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; STEATORRHEA;

EID: 67349225765     PISSN: 13421751     EISSN: 14377799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10157-008-0109-7     Document Type: Article

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