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Hepatitis C virus genotypes and quantitation of serum hepatitis C virus RNA in liver transplant recipients: relationship with severity of histological recurrence and implications in the pathogenesis of HCV infection.
Liver transplantation and surgery : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society - 1 Sept 1997
Pageaux G P, Ducos J, Mondain A M, Costes V, Picot M C, Perrigault P F, Domergue J, Larrey D, Michel H
Abstract excerpt
The reasons for the wide variation of incidence and severity of recurrent hepatitis C after liver transplantation are not clear. We have studied liver transplant recipients to assess the impact of hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotype and HCV RNA quantification on HCV recurrence after transplantation. Twenty-two patients received transplants for HCV cirrhosis and were followed up with virological and histological...
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