Late onset tacrolimus-induced life-threatening polyneuropathy in a kidney transplant recipient patient

CKJ: Clinical Kidney Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 323-326

  Renard, Delphine ^a   Gauthier, Thierry ^b   Venetz, Jean Pierre ^a   Buclin, Thierry ^a   Kuntzer, Thierry ^a  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b Hopital Riviera   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

adverse event; chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy; tacrolimus

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; BASILIXIMAB; CYCLOSPORIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; OPIATE; RAPAMYCIN; SODIUM; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONSTIPATION; DELIRIUM; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSAUTONOMIA; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDER; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPESTHESIA; HYPONATREMIA; HYPOREFLEXIA; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; IMMUNOTHERAPY; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; NERVE DEGENERATION; PARESTHESIA; POLYRADICULONEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEROID THERAPY; SWEATING; TACHYCARDIA; UNSTEADINESS; URINE INCONTINENCE;

EID: 84864485424     PISSN: 20488505     EISSN: 20488513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ckj/sfs067     Document Type: Article

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