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Utilization of a liver allograft from a hepatitis B surface antigen positive donor.
Transplantation - 15 Jan 2006
Ho Jin Kee, Harrigan P Richard, Sherlock Christopher H, Steinbrecher Urs P, Erb Siegfried R, Mo Theresa, Chung Stephen W, Buczkowski Andrezj K, Intaraprasong Pongphob, Scudamore Charles H, Yoshida Eric M
Abstract excerpt
With today's donor organ shortage, enhanced efforts must be made to utilize organs that previously would have been declined. We report a 26-year-old man with chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) coinfection who received a liver transplant from an HBsAg-positive donor. HBV viremia (6,281,185 copies/ml) was seen early posttransplant despite lamivudine prophylaxis, but became negative with...
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