Liver disease in the immunocompromised patient.
This chapter reviews the most common diseases of the liver that are associated immunodeficiencies resulting from AIDS, chemotherapy and radiation, and bone marrow and solid organ transplantation. Conditions described include liver disease, infection, venoocclusive disease, graft versus host disease, and others.
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Department of Pathology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520-8023, USA.
D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000150:complications; D016026:Bone Marrow Transplantation; D006801:Humans; D016867:Immunocompromised Host / Q000276:immunology*; D008107:Liver Diseases / Q000276:immunology* / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy; D016031:Liver Transplantation