Use of an immune functional assay to differentiate recurrent hepatitis C from acute cellular rejection in liver transplant patients

Using an immune functional assay to diff

Using an immune functional assay to differentiate acute cellular rejection from recurrent hepatitis C in liver transplant patients

✍ Roniel Cabrera; Miguel Ararat; Consuelo Soldevila-Pico; Lisa Dixon; Jen-Jung Pan 📂 Article 📅 2009 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 139 KB

In transplant recipients transplanted for hepatitis C, presentation of abnormal transaminases can herald the presentation of recurrent hepatitis C, cellular rejection, or both. Given the sometimes ambiguous histology with these 2 entities, the ability to distinguish them is of great importance becau