Outcome of hepatitis C virus-associated membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis after liver transplantation

Transplantation

Volumn 68, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1131-1134

  Cantarell, M C ^a   Charco, R ^b   Capdevila, L ^b   Vargas, V ^b   Lazaro, J L ^b   Murio, E ^b   Piera, L ^b   Margarit, C ^b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MEMBRANOPROLIFERATIVE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; RECURRENT DISEASE;

ADULT; FEMALE; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS, MEMBRANOPROLIFERATIVE; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RECURRENCE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0033610439     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199910270-00012     Document Type: Article

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