Timing and severity of initial hepatitis C recurrence as predictors of long-term liver allograft injury

Transplantation

Volumn 65, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1178-1182

  Rosen, Hugo R ^a,c   Gretch, David R ^b   Oehlke, Megan ^a   Flora, Kenneth D ^a   Benner, Kent G ^a   Rabkin, John M ^a   Corless, Christopher L ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c PORTLAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPATITIS C; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BIOPSY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENCE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032525150     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199805150-00006     Document Type: Article

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