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In organ transplantation, e.g. orthothopic liver transplantation, the graft acceptance and long-term graft survival depend on many factors, most of them being only partially revealed. Next to technical-surgical factors, host factors play an important role. These include pretransplant immunocompetence (determined by genetic background, nature of liver disease and state of health), the post-transplant immunosuppression induced by immunosuppressive therapy and complicating bacterial, fungal and viral infections.
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The, T.H., Roenhorst, H.W., Krom, R.A.F., Middeldorp, J.M., Houthoff, H.J., Gips, C.H. (1985). Cytomegalovirus (CMV)-infections and hosts’ immunoregulation in liver transplantation. In: Gips, C.H., Krom, R.A.F. (eds) Progress in Liver Transplantation. Developments in Gastroenterology, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5018-4_12
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