Increased risk of severe recurrence of hepatitis c virus in liver transplant recipients of donation after cardiac death allografts

Transplantation

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 686-689

  Hernandez Alejandro, Roberto ^a,b   Croome, Kris P ^a,b   Quan, Douglas ^a,b   Mawardi, Mohamed ^a,b   Chandok, Natasha ^a,b   Dale, Cheryl ^a   McAlister, Vivian ^a,b   Levstik, Mark A ^a,b   Wall, William ^a,b   Marotta, Paul ^a,b  

^a LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Donation after cardiac death; Hepatitis C virus; Liver transplant

Indexed keywords

ANTIVIRUS AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID;

ADULT; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS; BRAIN DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART DEATH; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; PRIMARY SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE RISK; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; BRAIN DEATH; DEATH; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; RISK FACTORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 81155162627     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TP.0b013e31822a79d2     Document Type: Article

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