Steroid-free living-donor liver transplantation in adults

Transplantation

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 704-706

  Marubashi, Shigeru ^a   Dono, Keizo ^a   Amano, Koji ^a   Hama, Naoki ^a   Gotoh, Kunihito ^a   Takahashi, Hidenori ^a   Hashimoto, Kazuhiko ^a   Miyamoto, Atsushi ^a   Takeda, Yutaka ^a   Nagano, Hiroaki ^a   Umeshita, Koji ^a   Monden, Morito ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Liver transplantation; Living donor; Steroid free

Indexed keywords

BASILIXIMAB; DACLIZUMAB; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; STEROID; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; AGED; ALLOGRAFT; ARTICLE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECIPIENT; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; STEROIDS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 25444493863     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.tp.0000172187.28376.3b     Document Type: Article

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