Gastroenterology
Volume 117, Issue 3 , Pages 619-625 , September 1999

European collaborative study on factors influencing outcome after liver transplantation for hepatitis C

  • Cyrille Féray

      Affiliations

    • Centre Hépato-Biliaire, Hôpital Paul Brousse, CRI 9804, Villejuif, France
    • ,
  • Lucio Caccamo

      Affiliations

    • Centro Trapianto Fegato, Ospedale Maggiore IRCCS, Istituto di Chirurgia Sperimentale e dei Trapianti, Milan, Italy
    • ,
  • Graeme J.M. Alexander

      Affiliations

    • University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, England
    • ,
  • Béatrice Ducot

      Affiliations

    • INSERM Unité 292, Kremlin-Bicêtre, France
    • ,
  • Jean Gugenheim

      Affiliations

    • Centre Hospitalo-Universitaire de Nice, Nice, France
    • ,
  • Teresa Casanovas

      Affiliations

    • Lhospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
    • ,
  • Carmelo Loinaz

      Affiliations

    • Servicio de Cirugia General, Hospital “12 de Octubre,” Madrid, Spain
    • ,
  • Michele Gigou

      Affiliations

    • Centre Hépato-Biliaire, Hôpital Paul Brousse, CRI 9804, Villejuif, France
    • ,
  • Patrizia Burra

      Affiliations

    • Cattedra Malattie Apparato Digerente, Universita di Padova, Padova, Italy
    • ,
  • Lisbeth Barkholt

      Affiliations

    • Department of Transplantation Surgery, Huddinge University Hospital, Huddinge, Sweden
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  • Raffael Esteban

      Affiliations

    • Servei d'hepatologia, Departament de Medicina Interna, Hospital General Universatari “Vall d'Hebron,” Barcelona, Spain
    • ,
  • Thierry Bizollon

      Affiliations

    • Hôpital de la Croix-Rousse, Lyon, France
    • ,
  • Jan Lerut

      Affiliations

    • Clinique Universitaire St. Luc, Département de Chirurgie, Brussels, Belgium
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  • Anne Minello–Franza

      Affiliations

    • Service d'Hépato-Gastroenterologie, Hôpital Jean Minjoz, Besançon, France
    • ,
  • Pierre–Henri Bernard

      Affiliations

    • Unité de Transplantation Hépatique, Centre Hospitalo Universitaire, Bordeaux, France
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  • Karl Nachbaur

      Affiliations

    • Liver Transplant Service, Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital, Innsbruck, Austria
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  • Danielle Botta–Fridlund

      Affiliations

    • Clinique d'Hépato-Gastroentérologie, Hôpital de la Conception, Marseille, France
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  • Henri Bismuth

      Affiliations

    • Centre Hépato-Biliaire, Hôpital Paul Brousse, CRI 9804, Villejuif, France
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  • Solko W. Schalm

      Affiliations

    • Director, Eurohep Liver Unit, University Hospital Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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  • Didier Samuel

      Affiliations

    • Centre Hépato-Biliaire, Hôpital Paul Brousse, CRI 9804, Villejuif, France
    • ,
  • for the European concerted action on viral hepatitis (Eurohep) group

Received 1 June 1998 ,Accepted 1 June 1999.

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☆ Address requests for reprints to: Cyrille Féray, M.D., Centre Hépato-Biliaire, Hôpital Paul Brousse, 14 avenue Paul Vaillant-Couturier, Villejuif, 94800 France. e-mail: cyrille.feray@pbr.ap-hop-paris.fr; fax: (33) 1-4559-3857.

☆☆ The investigators of the Eurohep Group include the following: Martine Neau-Cransac, Unité de Tranplantation Hépatique, Centre Hospitalo Universitaire, Bordeaux, France; Rosa Maria Iemmolo, Cattedra Malattie Apparato Digerente, Universita di Padova, Padova, Italy; Christian Ducerf and Christian Trepo, Hôpital de la Croix-Rousse, Lyon, France; Geert Martens, Innogenetics, Gent, Belgium; Jean-Philippe Miguet, Service d'Hepato-Gastroenterologie, Hôpital Jean Minjoz, Besançon, France; Carmen Baliellas and Joan Figueras, Lhospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain; and Giorgio Rossi and Luigi Rainero Fassati, Centro Trapianto Fegato, Ospedale Maggiore IRCCS, Istituto di Chirurgia Sperimentale e dei Trapianti, Milan, Italy.

PII: S0016-5085(99)70454-3

Gastroenterology
Volume 117, Issue 3 , Pages 619-625 , September 1999

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