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Severe allograft rejection in an intestinal transplant patient following oral immunoglobulin treatment for chronic norovirus infection: a case report.

Fredrik O ÅbergJohanna SavikkoVeli-Jukka AnttilaHeikki Mäkisalo
Published in: Clinical case reports (2018)
In an intestinal transplant patient under triple immunosuppression therapy with tacrolimus levels >10 ng/L, a 2-day oral immunoglobulin therapy given as treatment for chronic norovirus infection was temporally closely associated with the development of severe steroid-resistant acute graft rejection, thus suggesting that oral immunoglobulin might be able to promote a rejection response.
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