Efficacy of lamivudine re-treatment in a patient with hepatitis B virus (HBV) recurrence after liver transplantation and HBV-DNA breakthrough during the first treatment

Transplantation

Volumn 65, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1499-1500

  Marzano, Alfredo ^a   Debernardi Venon, Wilma ^a   Condreay, Lynn ^b   Rizzetto, Mario ^a  

^a MOLINETTE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAMIVUDINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; IMMUNOPROPHYLAXIS; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS ENVELOPE; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; DNA, VIRAL; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMANS; LAMIVUDINE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECURRENCE; RETREATMENT;

EID: 0032525895     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199806150-00017     Document Type: Article

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