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Pre-emptive Treatment of HCV after Living Donor Liver Transplantation with Direct-Acting Antiviral Agents.
Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract - 1 Aug 2018
Jung Jinmin, Kwon Jae Hyun, Song Gi-Won, Tak Eun-Young, Kirchner Vavara A, Lee Sung-Gyu
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BACKGROUND: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) universally recurs after liver transplantation (LT). Although the introduction of direct-acting antiviral agents (DAAs) has revolutionized the treatment of HCV infection, no optimal treatment for HCV recurrence after LT has been developed. METHODS: This study retrospectively evaluated the efficacy of DAAs as a pre-emptive treatment for recurrent HCV infection after living donor...
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