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SUBMITTER: Bahirwani R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3667971 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bahirwani Ranjeeta R Barin Burc B Olthoff Kim K Stock Peter P Murphy Barbara B Rajender Reddy K K
Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 20130601 6
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are both associated with chronic kidney disease (CKD), a major complication after orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT). The aim of this study was to assess predictors of post-OLT CKD in HIV/HCV-coinfected recipients versus HIV-infected recipients without HCV (HIV/non-HCV recipients). Data from a National Institutes of Health study of 116 OLT recipients (35 HIV/non-HCV recipients and 81 HIV/HCV-coinfected recipients) from 2003 to 20 ...[more]