Relationship between hepatitis C genotype and severity of recurrent hepatitis C after liver transplantation

Transplantation

Volumn 63, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1419-1423

  Gordon, Fredric D ^a   Poterucha, John J ^a   Germer, Jeff ^a   Zein, Nizar N ^a   Batts, Kenneth P ^a   Gross Jr , John B ^a   Wiesner, Russell ^a   Persing, David ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN A; TACROLIMUS; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; ALCOHOL LIVER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BUDD CHIARI SYNDROME; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEPATITIS C; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PRIMARY SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT INFECTION;

ADULT; BIOPSY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENCE; REOPERATION; RNA, VIRAL; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0030981536     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199705270-00009     Document Type: Article

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