Past and future prospects of orthoptic liver transplantation.
The hopes for liver transplantation have been increased by experience with the new immunosuppressive drug cyclosporin A. Optimal therapy with cyclosporin A has required steroid therapy, but the amounts of prednisone used have been a small fraction of those used in the past.
D000818:Animals; D001379:Azathioprine / Q000627:therapeutic use; D003524:Cyclosporins / Q000494:pharmacology / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D005260:Female; D006085:Graft Survival / Q000187:drug effects*; D006801:Humans; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D016031:Liver Transplantation; D011241:Prednisone / Q000627:therapeutic use
D003524:Cyclosporins; D001379:Azathioprine; D011241:Prednisone