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The effect of pretransplant chronic hepatitis C virus infection treatment on graft and patient survival in renal transplant recipients.
Experimental and clinical transplantation : official journal of the Middle East Society for Organ Transplantation - 1 Apr 2015
Korkmaz Murat, Fakı Sevgül, Öcal Serkan, Harmancı Özgür, Ensaroğlu Fatih, Selçuk Haldun, Haberal Mehmet
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OBJECTIVES: Studies have demonstrated worse graft and patient survival among hepatitis C virus-positive patients following kidney transplant. Eradication of hepatitis C virus infection before renal transplant with interferon should be considered in hepatitis C virus-infected patients undergoing dialysis who are on the waiting list for transplant. We investigated whether pretransplant hepatitis C virus infection...
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