Transient elastography identifies liver recipients with nonviral graft disease after transplantation: A guide for liver biopsy

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 566-576

  Rigamonti, Cristina ^a   Fraquelli, Mirella ^a   Bastiampillai, Anan Judina ^a   Caccamo, Lucio ^a   Reggiani, Paolo ^a   Rossi, Giorgio ^a   Colombo, Massimo ^a   Donato, Maria Francesca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIVER ENZYME;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHOLANGITIS; CHOLESTASIS; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; ELASTOGRAPHY; END STAGE LIVER DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER HISTOLOGY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECURRENT DISEASE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSIENT ELESTOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; BIOPSY; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; GAMMA-GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ROC CURVE;

EID: 84860124663     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.23391     Document Type: Article

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