Graft vs. host disease after liver transplantation: A new approach is needed

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1092-1099

  Perri, Roman ^a   Assi, Maha ^a   Talwalkar, Jayant ^a   Heimbach, Julie ^a   Hogan, William ^a   Moore, S Breanndan ^a   Rosen, Charles B ^a  

^a Mayo Clinic   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASILIXIMAB; CORTICOSTEROID; DACLIZUMAB; HLA ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; OKT 3; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL LIVER DISEASE; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; CASE STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; FEVER; GRAFT INFECTION; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; LEUKOPENIA; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MORTALITY; PANCYTOPENIA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PRIMARY SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RASH; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SEPSIS; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; ALLELES; FEMALE; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34548168799     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.21203     Document Type: Article

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