Twenty-year protocol liver biopsies: Invasive but useful for the management of liver recipients

Journal of Hepatology

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 840-847

  Sebagh, Mylène ^a,b   Samuel, Didier ^a,b   Antonini, Teresa Maria ^a   Coilly, Audrey ^a   Degli Esposti, Davide ^a   Roche, Bruno ^a,b   Karam, Vincent ^a   Dos Santos, Alexandre ^b   Duclos Vallée, Jean Charles ^a,b   Roque Afonso, Anne Marie ^a,b   Ballot, Eric ^b,c   Guettier, Catherine ^a,b   Blandin, Frédérique ^a   Saliba, Faouzi ^a,b   Azoulay, Daniel ^a  

^a HÔPITAL PAUL BROUSSE   (France)

^b Universite Paris Sud   (France)

^c HÔPITAL SAINT ANTOINE   (France)

Author keywords

Immunosuppression; Liver transplantation; Long term follow up; Non invasive markers; Protocol liver biopsy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTIVIRAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELASTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LIVER HISTOLOGY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIRUS HEPATITIS;

ADULT; BIOPSY; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPATITIS, CHRONIC; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84858701127     PISSN: 01688278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhep.2011.11.016     Document Type: Article

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