Long-term management of immunosuppression after pediatric liver transplantation: is minimization or withdrawal desirable or possible or both?

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Published in Curr Opin Organ Transplant on October 01, 2008

Authors

Sandy Feng1

Author Affiliations

1: University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143-0780, USA. sandy.feng@ucsfmedctr.org

Associated clinical trials:

Assessment Of the Safety and Benefit of Prospective Immunosuppressive Drug Withdrawal in Liver Transplantation and Prediction of Operational Tolerance | NCT00647283

Withdrawal of Immunosuppression in Pediatric Liver Transplant Recipients (WISP-R) | NCT00320606

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