Recurrent hepatitis C after living donor liver transplantation detected by Tc-99m GSA liver scintigraphy

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2013-2017

  Kaibori, Masaki ^a   Ha Kawa, Sang Kil ^a   Uchida, Yoichiro ^a   Ishizaki, Morihiko ^a   Hijikawa, Takeshi ^a   Saito, Takamichi ^a   Imamura, Atsushi ^a   Hirohara, Junko ^a   Uemura, Yoshiko ^a   Tanaka, Koichi ^b   Kamiyama, Yasuo ^a  

^a KANSAI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH AND INNOVATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Living donor liver transplantation; Recurrent hepatitis C; Tc 99m GSA liver scintigraphy

Indexed keywords

GALACTOSE; HUMAN SERUM ALBUMIN TC 99M; INTERFERON; PENTETATE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; RIBAVIRIN; TRACER; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LIVER CELL; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER SCINTISCANNING; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT INFECTION; VIRUS DETECTION;

FEMALE; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RNA, VIRAL; TECHNETIUM TC 99M AGGREGATED ALBUMIN; TECHNETIUM TC 99M PENTETATE;

EID: 33751529541     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10620-006-9534-1     Document Type: Article

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