Pneumocystis pneumonia induced by treatment with low-dose tacrolimus and methylprednisolone in a patient with rheumatoid arthritis: a case report

BACKGROUND: Tacrolimus is an immunosuppressive drug used to prevent acute rejection following organ transplantation and to treat autoimmune disease. Tacrolimus is usually prescribed in such situation at a dose of 3.0 mg/day. Pneumocystis pneumonia induced by this dose of tacrolimus has been reported...

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Autores principales: Kato, Motoyasu, Tobino, Kazunori, Fujimoto, Yuichi, Kobayashi, Isao, Sugano, Koji, Tokuda, Hitoshi, Ienaga, Hiroki, Takahashi, Kazuhisa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4222099/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24289285
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-6-498

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4222099/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24289285
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-6-498

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