Graft loss and racial mismatch in hepatitis C virus-positive liver transplant patients

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 505-506

  Kamal, Ahmad ^a  

^a SANTA CLARA VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN; INTERFERON; KILLER CELL IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIKE RECEPTOR; TACROLIMUS;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ANTIVIRAL THERAPY; CAUCASIAN; DEATH; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EDITORIAL; GRAFT FAILURE; HEALTH CARE; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; ORGAN DONOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 84860181813     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.23445     Document Type: Editorial

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