Acute demyelinating polyneuropathy after lung transplantation: guillain-barré syndrome or tacrolimus toxicity?

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Published in Case Rep Transplant on August 11, 2014

Authors

Nirmal S Sharma1, Keith M Wille1, Charles W Hoopes2, Enrique Diaz-Guzman3

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Pulmonary & Critical Care, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL, USA.
2: Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, USA.
3: Department of Pulmonary & Critical Care, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL, USA ; UAB ECMO Program, Cardiothoracic Transplant, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 619 19th Street S., Jefferson Tower 1102, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA.

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