The long-term liver graft and protocol biopsy: Do we want to look? What will we find?

Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 505-508

  Ekong, Udeme D ^a  

^a CHILDREN'S MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Liver transplantation; long term outcomes; protocol liver biopsy

Indexed keywords

EOSIN; HEMATOXYLIN;

CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CREATININE CLEARANCE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FATTY LIVER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LONG TERM CARE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW;

BIOPSY; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 81155162618     PISSN: 10872418     EISSN: 15317013     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MOT.0b013e32834a8caf     Document Type: Review

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