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Change of strategies and future perspectives against hepatitis B virus recurrence after liver transplantation.
World journal of gastroenterology - 28 Sept 2015
Ishigami Masatoshi, Ogura Yasuhiro, Hirooka Yoshiki, Goto Hidemi
Abstract excerpt
A few decades ago, liver transplantation in patients with chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection was considered a relative contraindication because of the high rate of graft infections and poor prognosis. Since then, remarkable progress was introduced by using nucleos(t)ide analogues and/or hepatitis B immunoglobulin (HBIg) and liver transplantation for HBV-related disease is now becoming one of the good...
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