Use of hepatitis B core antibody-positive liver allograft in hepatitis C virus-positive and -negative recipients with use of short course of hepatitis B immunoglobulin and lamivudine

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 3187-3189

  Jain, A ^a,b   Orloff, M ^a   Abt, P ^a   Kashyap, R ^a   Mohanka, R ^a   Lansing, K ^a   Kelley, M ^a   Bozorgzadeh, A ^a  

^a STRONG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADEFOVIR; CORTICOSTEROID; HEPATITIS B ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS B CORE ANTIBODY; LAMIVUDINE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; CHOLANGITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DEATH; DISEASE COURSE; DONOR; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG EFFICACY; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT FAILURE; HEART FAILURE; HEPATIC ARTERY; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFECTION PREVENTION; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; METASTASIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; RECURRENT CANCER; RECURRENT INFECTION; REOPERATION; SEPSIS; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS B ANTIBODIES; HEPATITIS B CORE ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C ANTIBODIES; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION, PASSIVE; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; LAMIVUDINE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 26444521704     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2005.07.049     Document Type: Article

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