Split-brain syndrome after hepatic transplantation: A tacrolimus-related vasculitis?

Metabolic Brain Disease

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 155-159

  Montagnese, Sara ^a   Schiff, Sami ^a   Poci, Carlo ^a   Iannizzi, Pamela ^a   Biancardi, Anna ^a   Manara, Renzo ^a   Briani, Chiara ^a   Mapelli, Daniela ^a   Realdi, Giuseppe ^a   Amodio, Piero ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cirrhosis; Corpus callosum; Hepatitis C; Split brain; Tacrolimus; Transplantation; Vasculitis

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; CRYOGLOBULIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISONE; SMOOTH MUSCLE ANTIBODY; TACROLIMUS; UREA;

ADULT; ANOMIA; ANTIBODY TITER; ANXIETY; APRAXIA; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN VASCULITIS; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; COMA; COORDINATION DISORDER; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DEATH; DISORIENTATION; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSARTHRIA; DYSPHAGIA; EDEMA; ERYTHROCYTE VOLUME; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FACIAL NERVE DISEASE; FATIGUE; GAIT DISORDER; HEADACHE; HEMIPARESIS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INSOMNIA; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIMB WEAKNESS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MICROCYTIC ANEMIA; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; MOTOR COORDINATION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PONS; PROTEINURIA; SPLIT BRAIN SYNDROME; TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC PORTOSYSTEMIC SHUNT; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS; VOMITING;

BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPLIT-BRAIN PROCEDURE; TACROLIMUS; VASCULITIS;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS;

EID: 77955698863     PISSN: 08857490     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11011-010-9192-z     Document Type: Article

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