Article
Phenotypic expression of recurrent disease after liver transplantation.
American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons - 1 May 2010
O'Grady J G
Abstract excerpt
Recurrence of the primary disease has become a major focus for transplant hepatologists both when investigating graft dysfunction and when tailoring immunosuppression to maximize graft survival. However, disease recurrence varies in penetrance, can be predictable or random, and does not always conform to the expected pattern of disease. The cholestatic hepatitis syndromes associated with hepatitis B and C are the...
Topics
- Autoimmune Diseases
- Chronic Disease
- Graft Survival
- Hepatitis B
- Hepatitis, Autoimmune
- Humans
- Immune Tolerance
- Immunosuppression Therapy
- Liver
- Liver Cirrhosis
- Liver Diseases
- Liver Transplantation
- Phenotype
- Recurrence
