Clinical and histologic patterns of early graft failure due to recurrent hepatitis C in four patients after liver transplantation

Transplantation

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 701-705

  Dickson, Rolland C ^a,b   Caldwell, Stephen H ^a   Ishitani, Michael B ^c   Lau, Johnson Y N ^b   Driscoll, Carolyn J ^a   Stevenson, William C ^c   Mccullough, Christopher S ^c   Pruett, Timothy L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; INTRAHEPATIC CHOLESTASIS; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; CHOLESTASIS; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENCE;

EID: 0029869478     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199603150-00005     Document Type: Article

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