Liver transplantation for patients with human immunodeficiency virus and hepatitis C virus coinfection with special reference to hemophiliac recipients in Japan

Surgery Today

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1325-1331

  Eguchi, Susumu ^a   Soyama, Akihiko ^a,b   Hidaka, Masaaki ^a   Takatsuki, Mitsuhisa ^a   Muraoka, Izumi ^a   Tomonaga, Tetsuo ^a   Kanematsu, Takashi ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b The Japan Foundation   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coinfection; Hepatitis C virus; Highly active antiretroviral therapy; Human immunodeficiency virus; Liver transplantation

Indexed keywords

INTERFERON; RIBAVIRIN; TACROLIMUS;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ANEMIA; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CHOLESTATIC HEPATITIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG OVERDOSE; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; HEMOPHILIA; HEPATITIS C; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; JAPAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MIXED INFECTION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RECURRENT INFECTION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIDE EFFECT; TREATMENT INDICATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ANTI-HIV AGENTS; ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY, HIGHLY ACTIVE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COINFECTION; END STAGE LIVER DISEASE; HEMOPHILIA A; HEMOPHILIA B; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; JAPAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 80855141738     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: 14362813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-010-4556-x     Document Type: Review

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