Clinical usefulness of serum C-reactive protein in living donor liver transplantation

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 55, Issue 81, 2008, Pages 164-168

  Song, Gi Won ^a   Lee, Sung Gyu ^a   Park, Kwang Min ^a   Hwang, Shin ^a   Kim, Ki Hun ^a   Ahn, Chul Soo ^a   Moon, Deok Bog ^a   Ha, Tae Yong ^a  

^a University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

C reactive protein (CRP); Complication; LDLT

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOSPORIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; TACROLIMUS;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION COMPLICATION; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; AGED; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; INFECTION; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPSIS; SHOCK, SEPTIC;

EID: 41549125875     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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