Case 11-2008 — A 45-Year-Old Man with Changes in Mental Status after Liver Transplantation  

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Fishman, Jay A. ; Gonzalez, R. Gilberto ; Branda, John A.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The New England Journal of Medicine (keterangan: ada di Proquest) vol. 358 no. 15 (Apr. 2008), page 1604.

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Perpustakaan FK Nomor Panggil: N08.K.2008.02 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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A 45-year-old man was admitted to this hospital for orthotopic liver transplantation. The patient had been well until the age of 18 years, when a diagnosis of non-A, non-B hepatitis was made after a 1-month episode of jaundice; the source of exposure was thought to be tattoos. Jaundice recurred intermittently thereafter. Six years before admission, the episodes became more frequent and severe, and chronic pruritus developed. Serologic testing disclosed antibodies to hepatitis C virus (HCV) and hepatitis B virus (HBV) core and surface antigens; tests for hepatitis B surface antigen and antibodies to hepatitis A were negative. The patient began . . .

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