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Predictors of disease recurrence post living donor liver transplantation in end stage chronic HCV patients.
Disease markers - 1 Jan 2014
El Awady Mostafa K, Bader El Din Noha G, Abdel Aziz Riad Mahmoud, Omran Moataza H, Abdelhafez Tawfeek H, Elbaz Tamer Mahmoud, Hunter Shereen Shoukry, Dawood Reham M, Abdel Aziz Ashraf O
Abstract excerpt
HCV recurrence represents a universal phenomenon after liver transplantation. In this study Fifty HCV patients who underwent living donor liver transplantation were enrolled and factors that may accelerate HCV reinfection of the allograft such as donor's age and degree of liver steatosis, recipient's age, gender, BMI, MELD score, liver functions, HCV viral load, type of immunosuppressive drug, and genetic...
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