Fulminant hepatic failure resulting from lamivudine- resistant hepatitis B virus in a renal transplant recipient: Durable response after orthotopic liver transplantation on adefovir dipivoxil and hepatitis B immune globulin

Transplantation

Volumn 68, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1912-1914

  Peters, Marion G ^a   Singer, Gary ^b   Howard, Todd ^b   Jacobsmeyer, Sarah ^b   Xiong, Xiaofeng ^c   Gibbs, Craig S ^c   Lamy, Patrick ^c   Murray, Alison ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c GILEAD SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADEFOVIR DIPIVOXIL; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CREATININE; DNA POLYMERASE; HEPATITIS B ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; LAMIVUDINE; VIRUS DNA;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY GRAFT; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER NECROSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; VIRUS CARRIER; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS MUTATION; VIRUS REACTIVATION;

EID: 0033611144     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199912270-00017     Document Type: Conference Paper

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