BK virus-associated bilateral ureteric stenosis after haematopoietic SCT: Viral kinetics and successful treatment

Bone Marrow Transplantation

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 745-746

  Hwang, Y Y ^a   Sim, J ^a   Leung, A Y H ^a   Lie, A K W ^a   Kwong, Y L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSULFAN; CIDOFOVIR; CIPROFLOXACIN; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOSPORIN A; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; BK VIRUS INFECTION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG EFFICACY; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HEMORRHAGIC CYSTITIS; HUMAN; HYDRONEPHROSIS; HYDROURETER; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LETTER; MALE; NEPHROSTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYELOGRAPHY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; URETER OBSTRUCTION; URINALYSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VIREMIA; VIRURIA; VIRUS DETECTION;

ADULT; BK VIRUS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; POLYOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS; URETERAL OBSTRUCTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84877669959     PISSN: 02683369     EISSN: 14765365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/bmt.2012.215     Document Type: Letter

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