Toxic epidermal necrolysis with failure of re-epithelialization. Could umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cell transplantation have a role?

Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 923-925

  Lehloenya, R J ^a   Esmail, F ^a   Christians, S J ^a   Motsepe, D ^a   Todd, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

EFAVIRENZ; LAMIVUDINE; NEVIRAPINE; PENTOXIFYLLINE; STEROID; ULINASTATIN; ZIDOVUDINE;

ABDOMINAL TUBERCULOSIS; ACINETOBACTER; ANEMIA; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BODY SURFACE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CORNEA PERFORATION; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DISEASE DURATION; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; ENTEROBACTER; EPITHELIZATION; EVISCERATION; HEALING; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYPERCALCEMIA; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; HYPOMAGNESEMIA; KLEBSIELLA; LETTER; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ORBIT CELLULITIS; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; PSEUDOMONAS; REMISSION; SEPTIC SHOCK; SEPTICEMIA; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SPHINGOMONAS PAUCIMOBILIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA; STEROID THERAPY; STEVENS JOHNSON SYNDROME; SYSTEMIC THERAPY; TOXIC EPIDERMAL NECROLYSIS; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT FAILURE; UMBILICAL CORD;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STEVENS-JOHNSON SYNDROME; UMBILICAL CORD;

EID: 84879091620     PISSN: 09269959     EISSN: 14683083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-3083.2012.04667.x     Document Type: Letter

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