Rescue of a pancreatic islet graft after steroid therapy

Transplantation

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Moreau, François ^a   Toti, Florence ^a   Bayle, François ^b   Berney, Thierry ^c   Egelhofer, Harald ^d   Chastre, Maxime ^a   Richard, Marie Jeanne ^d   Greget, Michel ^e   Masson, Dominique ^d   Zobairi, Fatiha ^a   Benhamou, Pierre Yves ^b   Kessler, Laurence ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b GRENOBLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^d CHU La Tronche and University   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASILIXIMAB; C PEPTIDE; ETANERCEPT; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 65; INSULIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PFIZER; RECOMBINANT HUMAN INSULIN; TACROLIMUS; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ANTIBODY DETECTION; B LYMPHOCYTE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; LETTER; PANCREAS ISLET TRANSPLANTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ADULT; C-PEPTIDE; FEMALE; HLA ANTIGENS; HUMANS; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS TRANSPLANTATION; ISOANTIBODIES; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

EID: 84856419825     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TP.0b013e31823f7fb2     Document Type: Letter

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