Fatal graft-versus-host disease after li
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Hideya Kamei; Fumitaka Oike; Yasuhiro Fujimoto; Hidekazu Yamamoto; Koichi Tanaka
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Article
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2005
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) is an uncommon but potentially devastating complication following liver transplantation. Recently, it was shown that use of a human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-homozygous donor leading to one-way HLA matching significantly increases the risk of GVHD after living donor li