Rapamycin-induced posterior reversible encephalopathy in a kidney transplantation patient

International Urology and Nephrology

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 913-916

  Qin, Wei ^a   Tan, Chun Yu ^b   Huang, Xiaoqi ^b   Huang, Zixing ^b   Tao, Ye ^a   Fu, Ping ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Kidney transplantation; PRES; Rapamycin

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; MANNITOL; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; RAPAMYCIN;

ADULT; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BABINSKI REFLEX; BLINDNESS; BLURRED VISION; CASE REPORT; COMA; CONVULSION; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIMB WEAKNESS; MALAISE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARALYSIS; POSTERIOR REVERSIBLE ENCEPHALOPATHY SYNDROME; SEIZURE; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VOMITING;

ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTERIOR LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY SYNDROME; SIROLIMUS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80555133300     PISSN: 03011623     EISSN: 15732584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11255-010-9757-0     Document Type: Article

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