The use of partial splenic artery embolization made it possible to administer interferon and ribavirin therapy in a liver transplant patient with fibrosing cholestatic hepatitis C complicated with thrombocytopenia [3]

Transplant International

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 255-257

  Sohara, Naondo ^a   Takagi, Hitoshi ^a   Kakizaki, Satoru ^a   Sato, Ken ^a   Mori, Masatomo ^a  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFERON; PREDNISOLONE; RIBAVIRIN; TSUKUBAENOLIDE;

ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CHOLESTATIC HEPATITIS; GRAFT REJECTION; HEPATITIS C; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MONOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; CHOLESTASIS; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; INTERFERONS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED; RIBAVIRIN; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENIC ARTERY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 33645374049     PISSN: 09340874     EISSN: 14322277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-2277.2006.00263.x     Document Type: Letter

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