Severity of liver disease in liver transplantation recipients with hepatitis C virus infection: Relationship to genotype and level of viremia

Hepatology

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1041-1046

  Zhou, Shuan ^a,b   Terrault, Norah A ^a,b   Ferrell, Linda ^b   Hahn, Judith A ^b   Lau, Johnson Y N ^c   Simmonds, Peter ^d   Roberts, John P ^b   Lake, John R ^b   Ascher, Nancy L ^b   Wright, Teresa L ^a,b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^e SAN FRANCISCO VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; DNA; HEPATITIS C ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROTYPE; VIREMIA;

EID: 16044365493     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/jhep.1996.v24.pm0008903372     Document Type: Article

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