Hypogammaglobulinemia and bronchiectasis in mycophenolate mofetil-treated renal transplant recipients: An emerging clinical phenomenon?

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 417-419

  Boddana, Preetham ^a   Webb, Lynsey H ^a   Unsworth, Joseph ^a   Brealey, Matthew ^a   Bingham, Coralie ^b   Harper, Steven J ^a  

^a SOUTHMEAD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL DEVON AND EXETER HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bronchiectasis; Hypogammaglobulinemia; Immunosuppression; Mycophenolate mofetil; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BRONCHIECTASIS; CHEST INFECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEMOGRAPHY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN DEFICIENCY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG LESION; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA; AGED; BRONCHIECTASIS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 79955091853     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: 13990012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2010.01255.x     Document Type: Article

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