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Cytomegalovirus and Death in Liver Transplantation

Nina Singh, MD; Timothy Gayowski, MD

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  • Veterans Affairs Medical Center; Pittsburgh, PA 15240
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Falagas and colleagues [1] concluded that the cytomegalovirus (CMV) serologic status of liver transplant donors and recipients was a significant determinant of death in the recipients. Our experience differs substantially from theirs. In our program, 130 patients have undergone orthotopic liver transplantation under tacrolimus-based primary immunosuppression in the 1990s. Neither CMV infection nor disease were predictors of death in our patients [2], and no correlation between the CMV serostatus of recipients and donors and death was seen (Table 1).
The major difference in mortality rates, as shown in the Table 1, might be...
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Singh N, Gayowski T. Cytomegalovirus and Death in Liver Transplantation. Ann Intern Med. 1997;127:412. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-127-5-199709010-00020

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Published: Ann Intern Med. 1997;127(5):412.

DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-127-5-199709010-00020

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