BK polyomavirus nephropathy complicated with acute T-cell-mediated rejection in a kidney transplant recipient: A case report

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 25, Issue SUPPL. 23, 2011, Pages 39-43

  Tanabe, Tatsu ^a   Shimizu, Tomokazu ^a   Sai, Keiko ^a   Miyauchi, Yuki ^a   Shirakawa, Hiroki ^a   Ishida, Hideki ^a   Honda, Kazuho ^a   Koike, Junki ^b   Yamaguchi, Yutaka ^c   Tanabe, Kazunari ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c Yamaguchi's Pathology Laboratory   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biopsy; BK polyomavirus; Cidofovir; Kidney transplantation; Rejection

Indexed keywords

BASILIXIMAB; CIDOFOVIR; CREATININE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; STEROID; TACROLIMUS; VIRUS ANTIGEN;

ADULT; ALLOGRAFT; ARTICLE; BK VIRUS; CASE REPORT; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEMODIALYSIS; HISTOLOGY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY FIBROSIS; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; LIVING DONOR; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYOMAVIRUS INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMIAN VIRUS 40; T LYMPHOCYTE; URINALYSIS; VIRUS LOAD;

BK VIRUS; CREATININE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; ISOANTIBODIES; KIDNEY DISEASES; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHRITIS, INTERSTITIAL; POLYOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VIRUS INFECTIONS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 79957622053     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: 13990012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2011.01479.x     Document Type: Article

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