Liver transplant for giant cell hepatitis with autoimmune haemolytic anaemia

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 249-251

  Melendez, Hector Vilca ^a   Rela, Mohamed ^a   Baker, Alastair J ^a   Ball, Colin ^a   Portmann, Bernard ^a   Mieli Vergani, Giorgina ^a   Heaton, Nigel D ^a  

^a KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Giant cell hepatitis; Liver transplantation

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; OKT 3; STEROID; TACROLIMUS; VINCRISTINE;

ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; CASE REPORT; GIANT CELL HEPATITIS; HEPATITIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE;

EID: 0030812859     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.77.3.249     Document Type: Article

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