Significance of detectable hepatitis B virus DNA in liver allograft tissue in long-term follow-up of liver transplant recipients.
Deniz Mut SurmeliIlker TuranSinan AkayMemnune Selda ErensoyGalip ErsözFulya GunsarUlus AkarcaAbdullah Zeki KarasuPublished in: Hepatology forum (2021)
The findings suggest that while treatment with HBIg plus oral antiviral as post-transplantation HBV prophylaxis may result in a percentage of patients with persistent HBV DNA in the graft, the presence of HBV DNA in the liver graft may not be related to clinical HBV recurrence.