Definition of chronic hepatitis e after liver transplant conforms to convention

American Journal of Transplantation

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 3011-3012

  Meisner, S ^a   Polywka, S ^a   Memmler, M ^b   Nashan, B ^a   Lohse, A W ^a   Sterneck, M ^a   Pischke, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b Medical Practice ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOTRANSFERASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; MYCOPHENOLATE MOFETIL; TACROLIMUS; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BUDD CHIARI SYNDROME; CASE REPORT; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY ANALYZER; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LETTER; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; MIDDLE AGED; PERIODIC MEDICAL EXAMINATION; PERSISTENT INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS LOAD; ADVERSE EFFECTS; BUDD-CHIARI SYNDROME; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RARE DISEASE; REMISSION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTOR; WATCHFUL WAITING;

BUDD-CHIARI SYNDROME; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMANS; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED; RARE DISEASES; REMISSION, SPONTANEOUS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS; VIRAL LOAD; WATCHFUL WAITING;

EID: 84945436358     PISSN: 16006135     EISSN: 16006143     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ajt.13428     Document Type: Letter

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