Plasma cell hepatitis in hepatitis C virus patients post-liver transplantation: Case-control study showing poor outcome and predictive features in the liver explant

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1826-1833

  Ward, Stephen C ^a   Schiano, Thomas D ^a   Thung, Swan N ^a   Fiel, M Isabel ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOSPORIN; DACLIZUMAB; METHYLPREDNISOLONE SODIUM SUCCINATE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISONE; TACROLIMUS;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; AGED; ALLOGRAFT; ARTICLE; CELL INFILTRATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; HEPATITIS; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PLASMA CELL HEPATITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS, AUTOIMMUNE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMA CELLS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 71249109335     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.21949     Document Type: Article

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