Hepatitis C Virus Recurrence in Living Donor Liver Transplant Recipients

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 38-41

  Rodriguez Luna, Hector ^a,b   Vargas, Hugo E ^a   Sharma, Pratima ^a   Ortiz, Jose ^a   De Petris, Giovanni ^a   Balan, Vijayan ^a   Byrne, Thomas ^a   Moss, Adyr ^a   Mulligan, David ^a   Rakela, Jorge ^a   Douglas, David D ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Deceased donor liver transplant; End stage liver disease; Hepatitis C virus; Living donor liver transplant; Recurrence

Indexed keywords

METHYLPREDNISOLONE; STEROID; TACROLIMUS; VIRUS DNA; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INCIDENCE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGIST; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; RECURRENT DISEASE; RECURRENT INFECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED STATES; VIROLOGY; VIRUS TITRATION;

ADULT; AGED; ARIZONA; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 10744224065     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:DDAS.0000011599.78222.9e     Document Type: Article

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