Conversion from twice daily tacrolimus to once daily tacrolimus in long-term stable liver transplant recipients: A single-center experience with 394 patients

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 529-533

  Dumortier, Jérôme ^a   Guillaud, Olivier ^a   Boillot, Olivier ^a  

^a EDOUARD HERRIOT HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; AZATHIOPRINE; CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; CYCLOSPORIN; EVEROLIMUS; INSULIN; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; STEROID; TACROLIMUS;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ARTICLE; ASTHENIA; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIARRHEA; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTENSION; INSOMNIA; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH DISEASE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; ORAL DROUGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREMOR; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TACROLIMUS;

EID: 84876946765     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.23638     Document Type: Article

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