Parainfluenza virus 3 pneumonia in a kidney transplant recipient: Case report

Transplant Infectious Disease

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 333-336

  Park, S Y ^a   Sung, H ^a   Park, K T ^a   Kim, S C ^a   Kim, S H ^a   Choi, S H ^a   Kim, Y S ^a   Woo, J H ^a   Lee, S O ^b   Han, D J ^a  

^a University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Asan Medical Center   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Kidney transplantation; Parainfluenza virus; Pneumonia

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFAZOLIN; CEFTRIAXONE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CREATININE; GANCICLOVIR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; OXYGEN; RIBAVIRIN; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; AEROSOL; AIRBORNE INFECTION; ANKLE PAIN; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLOOD CLOT; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; CELLULITIS; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CONVALESCENCE; COUGHING; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG PULSE THERAPY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSPNEA; FEVER; GENERALIZED EDEMA; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; INSPIRATORY CAPACITY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LEG SWELLING; LUNG INFILTRATE; LUNG LAVAGE; MALE; OXYGEN SATURATION; OXYGEN THERAPY; PARAINFLUENZA VIRUS 3; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRACHEA; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

ADULT; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PARAINFLUENZA VIRUS 3, HUMAN; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; RESPIROVIRUS INFECTIONS; RIBAVIRIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 68849114148     PISSN: 13982273     EISSN: 13993062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3062.2009.00387.x     Document Type: Article

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