Refractory autoimmune hemolytic anemia after intestinal transplant responding to conversion from a calcineurin to mTOR inhibitor

Pediatric Transplantation

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 466-471

  Acquazzino, Melissa A ^a   Fischer, Ryan T ^b   Langnas, Alan ^c   Coulter, Don W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S MERCY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

calcineurin inhibition; hemolytic anemia; intestinal transplant; mTOR inhibitor

Indexed keywords

CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN; EVEROLIMUS; HEMOGLOBIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PREDNISOLONE; RAPAMYCIN; RITUXIMAB; STEROID; TACROLIMUS;

ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFANT; INTESTINE TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; MALE; NEUTROPENIA; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; PLASMAPHERESIS; POSTTRANSPLANT LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISEASE; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

CALCINEURIN INHIBITION; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; INTESTINAL TRANSPLANT; MTOR INHIBITOR;

ANEMIA, HEMOLYTIC, AUTOIMMUNE; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL, MURINE-DERIVED; CALCINEURIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORINE; FEMALE; HEMOLYSIS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INFANT; INTESTINES; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; PENICILLINS; PLASMAPHERESIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SIROLIMUS; STEROIDS; TACROLIMUS; TOR SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84879888547     PISSN: 13973142     EISSN: 13993046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/petr.12101     Document Type: Article

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