The outcome of liver grafts procured from hepatitis C-positive donors.

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Published in Transplantation on February 27, 2002

Authors

Ergun Velidedeoglu1, Niraj M Desai, Louis Campos, Kim M Olthoff, Abraham Shaked, Frederick Nunes, Gillian Zeldin, Charmaine Stewart, Emily Blumberg, John Abrams, James F Markmann

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania Health System, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA.

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