[PDF][PDF] Altered innate immunity in chronic hepatitis C infection: cause or effect?

G Szabo, S Chang, A Dolganiuc - Hepatology, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a uniquely successful hepatitis virus in its ability to establish
chronic infection in more than two-thirds of those who contract it. The inability of the innate …

Does spleen volume play a role in patients with HCV-related chronic hepatitis?

G Tarantino, P Conca, M Tarantino… - International …, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
As the lymphotropism of hepatitis C virus (HCV) has already been ascertained, and in the
light of the fact that the immune defense system is an organized network composed of …

Assessment of spleen filtrate function in renal transplant recipients using technetium-99m stannous colloid liver-spleen scan

NC Araújo, MB Neves… - Transplantation …, 2017 - Elsevier
Background Functional hyposplenism (FH) is indicated by an anatomically present spleen
that fails to take up radiolabeled colloid. The occurrence of FH has been reported in a small …