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Case report of unchanged tacrolimus clearance in a hypoxemic pediatric liver transplant recipient with hepatopulmonary syndrome

✍ Scribed by Koh-ichi Sugimoto; Masami Ohmori; Akio Fujimura; Koh-ichi Sakamoto; Shuji Hishikawa; Koichi Mizuta; Yoshiaki Kita; Takeji Uno; Hideo Kawarasaki

Book ID: 105840704
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2004
Tongue: English
Weight: 220 KB
Volume: 17
Category: Article
ISSN: 0934-0874
DOI: 10.1007/s00147-004-0761-0

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