Changing picture of central nervous system complications in liver transplant recipients

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1279-1285

  Vizzini, Giovanni ^a   Asaro, Monica ^a   Miraglia, Roberto ^a   Gruttadauria, Salvatore ^a,b   Filì, Daniela ^a   D'Antoni, Adele ^a   Petridis, Ioannis ^a   Marrone, Gianluca ^a   Pagano, Duilio ^a   Gridelli, Bruno ^a,b  

^a MEDITERRANEAN INSTITUTE FOR TRANSPLANTATION AND ADVANCED SPECIALIZED THERAPIES ISMETT   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN; CHOLESTEROL; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CENTRAL PONTINE MYELINOLYSIS; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL; VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 82955165648     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.22383     Document Type: Article

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