Evans syndrome after successful living-donor liver transplantation for neonatal giant cell hepatitis [1]

Transplantation

Volumn 84, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 798-799

  Yokoyama, Satoshi ^a   Kasahara, Mureo ^a   Fukuda, Akinari ^a   Morioka, Daisuke ^a   Mori, Tetsuya ^a   Nakagawa, Satoshi ^a   Shimizu, Naoki ^a   Saito, Osamu ^a   Nakagawa, Atsuko ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHILD HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; PREDNISOLONE; TACROLIMUS;

AUTOIMMUNE HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL FEATURE; DRUG MEGADOSE; FOLLOW UP; GIANT CELL; GRAFT REJECTION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER GRAFT; LIVING DONOR; MALE; NEWBORN HEPATITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANEMIA, HEMOLYTIC, AUTOIMMUNE; DNA, VIRAL; EPSTEIN-BARR VIRUS INFECTIONS; GIANT CELLS; HEPATITIS; HERPESVIRUS 4, HUMAN; HUMANS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; INFANT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PURPURA, THROMBOCYTOPENIC, IDIOPATHIC;

EID: 34748869547     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.tp.0000280544.06865.07     Document Type: Letter

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