Evidence that pediatric liver transplant recipients may undergo late rejection episodes in spite of donor-specific microchimerism

Transplantation

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 656-657

  Molleston, Jean P ^a   Alevy, Yael G ^a   Sivasai, Krovvidi S R ^a   Mohanakumar, T ^a   Howard, Todd K ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; OKT 3; ORNITHINE CARBAMOYLTRANSFERASE; STEROID; TACROLIMUS;

ARTICLE; BILE DUCT ATRESIA; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CHIMERA; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHILD; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; INFANT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPLANTATION CHIMERA;

EID: 0030002853     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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