Central Nervous System Infectious Complications Early After Liver Transplantation

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1216-1222

  Feltracco, P ^a   Barbieri, S ^a   Furnari, M ^a   Milevoj, M ^a   Rizzi, S ^a   Galligioni, H ^a   Salvaterra, F ^a   Zanus, G ^a   Cillo, U ^a   Ori, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; AMPHOTERICIN B; AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; AMPICILLIN; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CASPOFUNGIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CIDOFOVIR; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ECHINOCANDIN; FLUCONAZOLE; FOSCARNET; GANCICLOVIR; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; ITRACONAZOLE; MICAFUNGIN; PENICILLIN G; POSACONAZOLE; STEROID; TRIAZOLE; VALGANCICLOVIR; VANCOMYCIN; VORICONAZOLE;

ABDOMINAL INFECTION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASPERGILLOSIS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BLEEDING; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN EDEMA; CANDIDEMIA; CANDIDIASIS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM ASPERGILLOSIS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISORIENTATION; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG EXCRETION; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG PENETRATION; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG TISSUE LEVEL; FEVER; GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HERPES SIMPLEX ENCEPHALITIS; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INFECTION COMPLICATION; INFECTION RESISTANCE; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; INTRAVASCULAR CATHETER; INVASIVE ASPERGILLOSIS; LISTERIOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MYCOSIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; RECURRENT INFECTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RETRANSPLANTATION; SEIZURE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSFUSION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VIRUS INFECTION;

ASPERGILLOSIS; CANDIDIASIS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; ENCEPHALITIS, HERPES SIMPLEX; HERPES SIMPLEX; HUMANS; INFECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MENINGITIS, VIRAL; MYCOSES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77952563352     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2010.03.108     Document Type: Article

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