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Living donor liver transplantation for patients with hepatitis C virus cirrhosis: Tokyo experience.
Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association - 1 Oct 2005
Sugawara Yasuhiko, Makuuchi Masatoshi
Abstract excerpt
Living donor liver transplantation is an alternative therapeutic option for patients with end-stage HCV cirrhosis because of the cadaveric organ shortage. Preliminary results, however, indicate that live donor grafts might be disadvantageous for HCV patients. Sixty-seven patients underwent living donor liver transplantation for HCV cirrhosis between 1996 and 2004. All the patients preemptively received antiviral...
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