Fatal Acute Hepatitis B Virus Infection while Receiving Immunosuppressants after Renal Transplantation.
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Fatal hepatitis B virus infection with fibrosing cholestatic hepatitis following renal transplantation.
After transplantation the patient received maintenance immunosuppression with prednisone 30 mg daily, azathioprine 100 mg daily, and cyclosporin 8 mg/kg/ day. For the first 3 days post-transplantation she
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عنوان ژورنال: Internal Medicine
سال: 1993
ISSN: 0918-2918,1349-7235
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.32.547