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Hepatitis C virus genotyping of organ donor samples to aid in transplantation of HCV-positive organs.
Clinical transplantation - 1 Feb 2018
Gentile Caren, Van Deerlin Vivianna M, Goldberg David S, Reese Peter P, Hasz Richard D, Abt Peter, Blumberg Emily, Farooqi Midhat S
Abstract excerpt
Given the availability of new highly efficacious anti-HCV therapies, some clinicians have advocated for wider use of kidneys from hepatitis C virus-positive (HCV+) donors, including transplanting them into HCV-negative recipients. As treatment regimens for HCV are commonly guided by genotype, pretransplant HCV genotyping of tissue donors would be beneficial. To our knowledge, donor HCV genotyping has never been...
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