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Recent advances in hepatic transplantation at the University of Pittsburgh
K Abu-Elmagd1, O Bronsther, A Jain
1University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh Transplant Institute, Pennsylvania.
Clinical Transplants
|January 1, 1993
Abstract:
FK506 undoubtedly improved the survival advantage of hepatic allotransplantation. Hepatic-intestinal and multivisceral transplantation has also become a feasible therapy for patients with combined intestinal and liver failure. With better understanding of the immunologic and metabolic aspects of allo- and xenotransplantation, further clinical attempts to transplant animal organs to humans may be considered with the hope for a better outcome in the very near future.