Is recurrence of hepatitis C worse after living donor or deceased donor liver transplantation?

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1256-1257

  Brown Jr , Robert S ^a  

^a College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; TACROLIMUS; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

CADAVER DONOR; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECURRENCE RISK; RECURRENT VIRUS INFECTION;

CADAVER; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; RECURRENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 6444225659     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.20284     Document Type: Editorial

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