Successful rescue of severe recurrent hepatitis C with interferon and ribavirin in a liver transplant patient

Transplantation

Volumn 69, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1956-1958

  Muramatsu, Sanshiro ^a   Ku, Yonson ^a   Fukumoto, Takumi ^a   Iwasaki, Takeshi ^a   Tominaga, Masahiro ^a   Kusunoki, Nobuya ^a   Yoon, Seitetsu ^a   Kuroda, Yoshikazu ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; INTERFERON; RIBAVIRIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; GRAFT FAILURE; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT INFECTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIREMIA;

EID: 0034657971     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-200005150-00037     Document Type: Article

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