Hepatitis C transmission and infection by orthotopic heart transplantation

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 350-354

  Pfau, Patrick R ^a   Rho, Robert ^a   Denofrio, David ^a   Loh, Evan ^a   Blumberg, Emily A ^a   Acker, Michael A ^a   Lucey, Michael R ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN; PREDNISONE; VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, HORIZONTAL; FEMALE; GENES, VIRAL; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C ANTIBODIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RNA, VIRAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0034117027     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1053-2498(00)00062-0     Document Type: Article

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