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Successful Treatment of Fulminant Hepatitis due to Varicella Zoster Virus using Immunoglobulin in a Kidney Transplant Patient
The clinical benefit of adjuvant intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) therapy is controversial in immunocompromised patients with severe varicella. A twenty-one-year-old woman who had received a kidney transplant one year earlier presented with fever and generalized rash for 5 days. Initial immunoglobu...
Autores principales: | Hsing, Li-Chang, Kim, Ji Yeun, Kwon, Ji-Soo, Shin, Eui-Cheol, Kim, Sung-Han |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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The Korean Society of Infectious Diseases and Korean Society for Chemotherapy
2019
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6779580/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31583865 http://dx.doi.org/10.3947/ic.2019.51.3.310 |
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