Successful treatment of systemic de novo sarcoidosis with cyclosporine discontinuation and provision of rapamune after liver transplantation

Transplant International

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Manzia, Tommaso Maria ^a   Bellini, Maria Irene ^a   Corona, Lauren ^b   Toti, Luca ^a   Fratoni, Stefano ^c   Cillis, Annagrazia ^a   Orlando, Giuseppe ^d   Tisone, Giuseppe ^a  

^a TOR VERGATA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c S EUGENIO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN; RAPAMYCIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ASTHENIA; ATELECTASIS; CASE REPORT; CHOLANGITIS; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; COMMON BILE DUCT STENOSIS; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSPNEA; FEVER; GRANULOMA; HEPATITIS C; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; JAUNDICE; LETTER; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOIDOSIS;

BILE DUCT DISEASES; BIOPSY; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; CYCLOSPORINE; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SARCOIDOSIS; SARCOIDOSIS, PULMONARY; SIROLIMUS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79960149902     PISSN: 09340874     EISSN: 14322277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-2277.2011.01256.x     Document Type: Letter

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