Nephrotic syndrome after liver transplantation in a patient with hepatitis C virus-associated glomerulonephritis

Transplantation

Volumn 64, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1073-1076

  Pascual, Manuel ^a   Thadhani, Ravi ^a   Chung, Raymond T ^a   Williams Jr , Winfred W ^a   Meehan, Shane ^a   Tolkoff Rubin, Nina ^a   Colvin, Robert ^a   Cosimi, A Benedict ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; PREDNISONE; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY BIOPSY; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS HEPATITIS;

ANGIOTENSIN-CONVERTING ENZYME INHIBITORS; CREATININE; ENALAPRIL; FEMALE; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROTEINURIA; REOPERATION; RNA, VIRAL; TIME FACTORS; VIREMIA;

EID: 0030753526     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199710150-00022     Document Type: Article

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