Hepatitis C virus reinfection in liver transplant patients: Evaluation of liver damage progression with echo-color doppler

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 616-624

  Bolognesi, Massimo ^a   Quaglio, Cristina ^a   Bombonato, Giancarlo ^a   Guido, Maria ^a   Cavalletto, Luisa ^a   Chemello, Liliana ^a   Merkel, Carlo ^a   Rugge, Massimo ^a   Gatta, Angelo ^a   Sacerdoti, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLOW RATE; HEMODYNAMICS; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER HISTOLOGY; LIVER INJURY; MALE; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD FLOW; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REINFECTION; SPLANCHNIC BLOOD FLOW; SURGICAL PATIENT;

ADULT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEPATIC ARTERY; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTAL VEIN; RECURRENCE; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPLANCHNIC CIRCULATION; SPLENIC ARTERY; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 43849098188     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.21407     Document Type: Article

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