[All HCV-positive candidates for kidney transplantation should be assessed to receive antiviral treatment before transplantation given the increased life expectancy compared to other HCV-positive patients on dialysis, the increased risk of progression of liver disease with immunosuppressive therapy and the inability to receive IFN therapy after renal transplantation.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE