Severe H1N1 infection in a pediatric liver transplant recipient treated with intravenous zanamivir: Efficiency and complications

Transplantation

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 223-224

  Dohna Schwake, Christian ^a   Schweiger, Brunhilde ^b   Felderhoff Müser, Ursula ^a   Fiedler, Melanie ^a   Kaiser, Gernot M ^a   Paul, Andreas ^a   Gerner, Patrick ^a   Lainka, Elke ^a   Hoyer, Peter F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BASILIXIMAB; CYCLOSPORIN A; OSELTAMIVIR; PREDNISONE; VIRUS RNA; ZANAMIVIR;

ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; CAROLI DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEVER; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFLUENZA A (H1N1); LETTER; LEUKOPENIA; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG VENTILATION; PANDEMIC INFLUENZA; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH PARESIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBECTOMY;

ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, ADULT; RNA, VIRAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ZANAMIVIR;

EID: 77954933125     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TP.0b013e3181e0a0df     Document Type: Letter

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