Graft loss following liver transplantation in patients with chronic hepatitis C

Transplantation

Volumn 62, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1773-1776

  Rosen, Hugo R ^a   O'Reilly, Patrick M ^a   Shackleton, Christopher R ^a   Mcdiarmid, Sue ^a   Holt, Curtis ^a   Busuttil, Ronald W ^a   Martin, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE;

BIOPSY; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT STUDIES; GRAFT REJECTION; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030443920     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199612270-00015     Document Type: Conference Paper

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