Voriconazole and itraconazole in lung transplant recipients receiving tacrolimus (FK 506): Efficacy and drug interaction

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Kramer, Mordechai R ^a,b   Amital, Anat ^a,b   Fuks, Leonardo ^a,b   Shitrit, David ^a,b  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Itraconazole; Tacrolimus; Voriconazole

Indexed keywords

ITRACONAZOLE; TACROLIMUS; VORICONAZOLE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; CANDIDIASIS; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; DRUG INTERACTIONS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; ITRACONAZOLE; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PYRIMIDINES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TACROLIMUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIAZOLES;

EID: 79953308848     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: 13990012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2010.01373.x     Document Type: Article

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