Quality of life, functional status, and depression in male liver transplant recipients with recurrent viral hepatitis C

Transplantation

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 69-72

  Singh, Nina ^a,b   Gayowski, Timothy ^a   Wagener, Marilyn M ^a   Marino, Ignazio R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE;

ADULT; AGED; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECURRENCE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS;

EID: 0033556549     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199901150-00011     Document Type: Article

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