Hyperinfection strongyloidiasis in renal transplant recipients

BMJ Case Reports

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages

  Khuroo, Mehnaaz S ^a  

^a GOVERNMENT MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; IVERMECTIN; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISOLONE; TACROLIMUS;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ACUTE ABDOMEN; ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; ASTHENIA; CADAVER KIDNEY; CASE REPORT; DEHYDRATION; DIARRHEA; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DUODENITIS; DUODENUM BIOPSY; EMACIATION; END STAGE RENAL DISEASE; ENDOSCOPIC BIOPSY; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOCAL GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS; FOLLOW UP; GASTRITIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTESTINE ISCHEMIA; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; SMALL INTESTINE RESECTION; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; VOMITING; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 85067740205     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1757790X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2014-205068     Document Type: Article

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