Tacrolimus-associated thrombotic microangiopathy in a lung transplant recipient

BMJ Case Reports

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Boyer, Nathan Lewis ^a   Niven, Alexander ^a   Edelman, Jeffery ^b  

^a MADIGAN ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COTRIMOXAZOLE; CREATININE; CYCLOSPORIN; HAPTOGLOBIN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; PREDNISOLONE; RAPAMYCIN; TACROLIMUS;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL TENDERNESS; ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ECCHYMOSIS; EVENING DOSAGE; FEMALE; FLUID RESUSCITATION; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFECTION PREVENTION; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MORNING DOSAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA;

EID: 84875866045     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1757790X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2012-007351     Document Type: Article

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