Hepatitis C virus seropositivity in organ donors and survival in heart transplant recipients

JAMA

Volumn 296, Issue 15, 2006, Pages 1843-1850

  Gasink, Leanne B ^a,d   Blumberg, Emily A ^a   Localio, A Russell ^a   Desai, Shashank S ^b   Israni, Ajay K ^c   Lautenbach, Ebbing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b INOVA FAIRFAX HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAFT INFECTION; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HEART GRAFT; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; LIVER DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; ORGAN DONOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; VASCULAR DISEASE;

EID: 33750044874     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.296.15.1843     Document Type: Article

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