Hepatitis C virus decreases in patients with maintenance hemofiltration therapy

Artificial Organs

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 316-318

  Ishida, Hideki ^a   Tanabe, Kazunari ^a   Tokumoto, Tadahiko ^a   Shimizu, Tomokazu ^a   Shimmura, Hiroaki ^a   Yoshioka, Takashi ^b   Toma, Hiroshi ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Dialysis Unit   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hemodialysis; Hepatitis C virus

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODIES; DIALYSIS MEMBRANES; HEMODIALYZERS; PATIENT TREATMENT; PORE SIZE; VIRUSES;

BLOOD PURIFICATION; HAEMODIALYSIS; HCV RNA; HEMOFILTRATION; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA; INCIDENCE RATE; MEMBRANE PORES; MEMBRANE SURFACE; VIRUS PARTICLES;

DIALYSIS;

VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTINUOUS AMBULATORY PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIALYSIS MEMBRANE; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMOFILTRATION; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS PARTICLE;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 1842789101     PISSN: 0160564X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1594.2004.47196.x     Document Type: Article

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