Long-term monitoring of Epstein-Barr virus DNA load and humoral parameter abnormalities in pediatric liver transplant recipients before development of malignancy

Pediatric Transplantation

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 629-635

  Gregorek, Hanna ^a   Jankowska, Irena ^a   Dzierzanowska Fangrat, Katarzyna ^a   Teisseyre, Joanna ^a   Sawicka, Anna ^a   Kasztelewicz, Beata ^a   Pawłowska, Joanna ^a  

^a CHILDREN'S MEMORIAL HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

Author keywords

dysgammaglobulinemia; Epstein Barr virus infection; monoclonal gammopathy; pediatric liver transplantation

Indexed keywords

GANCICLOVIR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MONOCLONAL PROTEIN; PREDNISONE; PROTEIN; RAPAMYCIN; STEROID; TACROLIMUS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS DNA;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS INFECTION; FEMALE; GAMMOPATHY; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; HYPERGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFANT; LABORATORY TEST; LARGE CELL LYMPHOMA; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOCLONAL IMMUNOGLOBULINEMIA; OLIGOCLONAL GAMMOPATHY; PATIENT MONITORING; POST TRANSPLANT LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS LOAD;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA, VIRAL; EPSTEIN-BARR VIRUS INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISORDERS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; VIRAL LOAD;

EID: 77954515023     PISSN: 13973142     EISSN: 13993046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3046.2010.01293.x     Document Type: Article

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