Prevention of hepatitis B recurrence after liver transplantation using lamivudine and hepatitis B immune globulin

Annals of Transplantation

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 28-32

  Ołdakowska Jedynak, Urszula ^a   Paczek, Leszek ^a   Foroncewicz, Bartosz ^a   Mucha, Krzysztof ^a   Nyckowski, Paweł ^a   Zieniewicz, Krzysztof ^a   Ziarkiewicz Wróblewska, Bogna ^a   Ziółkowski, Jacek ^a   Pilecki, Tomasz ^a   Patkowski, Waldemar ^a   Górnicka, Barbara ^a   Paczkowska, Agata ^a   Krawczyk, Marek ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Hepatitis B recurrence; Liver transplantation

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN A; HEPATITIS B ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; LAMIVUDINE; PREDNISONE; TACROLIMUS; VIRUS DNA; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTOR;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ADULT; ALLOGRAFT; ARTICLE; BILIARY TRACT DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; GRAFT INFECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPATIC ARTERY THROMBOSIS; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFECTION CONTROL; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; RECURRENT DISEASE; REINFECTION; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; COHORT ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B ANTIBODIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; LAMIVUDINE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 43049141226     PISSN: 14259524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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