Renal transplantation offers a better survival in HCV-infected ESRD patients

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 619-623

  Sezer, Siren ^a   Ozdemir, Fatma Nurhan ^a   Akcay, Ali ^a,b   Arat, Zubeyde ^a   Boyacioglu, Sedat ^a   Haberal, Mehmet ^a  

^a BASKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Chronic allograft failure; HCV infection; Hemodialysis; Renal transplantation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC GRAFT REJECTION; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIALYSIS; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEMODIALYSIS; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; BIOPSY; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER; MALE; RENAL DIALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIREMIA;

EID: 4644251292     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2004.00252.x     Document Type: Article

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