Subcutaneous administration of hepatitis B immune globulin in combination with lamivudine following orthotopic liver transplantation: Effective prophylaxis against recurrence

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 524-525

  Powell, James J ^a   Apiratpracha, Wichian ^b   Partovi, Nilufar ^b   Erb, Siegfried R ^b   Scudamore, Charles H ^a   Steinbrecher, Urs P ^b   Buczkowski, Andrezj K ^a   Chung, Stephen W ^a   Yoshida, Eric M ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c VANCOUVER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Hepatitis B; Hepatitis B immune globulin; Immune globulin; Liver transplantation; Subcutaneous

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; BAY HEP B; HEPARIN; HEPATITIS B ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIBODY; HEPATOVIR; LAMIVUDINE; VIRUS DNA; WARFARIN;

ADULT; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; DRUG EFFICACY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; MALE; MULTIPLE DRUG DOSE; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RECURRENT VIRUS INFECTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THROMBECTOMY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOSIS PREVENTION; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; HEPATITIS B; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION, PASSIVE; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; LAMIVUDINE; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENCE;

EID: 33745601376     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: 13990012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2006.00517.x     Document Type: Article

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