Assessment of graft fibrosis by transient elastography in patients with recurrent hepatitis C after living donor liver transplantation

Transplantation

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 69-74

  Harada, Noboru ^a   Soejima, Yuji ^a   Taketomi, Akinobu ^a   Yoshizumi, Tomoharu ^a   Ikegami, Toru ^a   Yamashita, Yo Ichi ^a   Itoh, Shinji ^a   Kuroda, Yosuke ^a   Maehara, Yoshihiko ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Collagen; Hyaluronic acid; Liver biopsy; Liver fibrosis; Liver transplantation

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; COLLAGEN TYPE 4; HYALURONIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ELASTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; BIOPSY; COLLAGEN TYPE IV; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; HYALURONIC ACID; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 38149102557     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.tp.0000297248.18483.16     Document Type: Article

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