Open AccessPOSTTRANSPLANT DIABETES MELLITUS IN LIVER TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS: RISK FACTORS, TEMPORAL RELATIONSHIP WITH HEPATITIS C VIRUS ALLOGRAFT HEPATITIS, AND IMPACT ON MORTALITY1
Author(s) -
Seema Baid,
A. Benedict Cosimi,
Mary Lin Farrell,
David Schoenfeld,
Sandy Feng,
Raymond T. Chung,
Nina Tolkoff-Rubin,
Manuel Pascual
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
transplantation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.45
H-Index - 204
eISSN - 1534-6080
pISSN - 0041-1337
DOI - 10.1097/00007890-200109270-00015
Subject(s) - medicine , diabetes mellitus , hepatitis c , hepatitis c virus , gastroenterology , risk factor , hazard ratio , hepatitis , immunology , virus , endocrinology , confidence interval
Recent studies suggest an association between diabetes mellitus and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. Our aim was to determine (1) the prevalence and determinants of new onset posttransplant diabetes mellitus (PTDM) in HCV (+) liver transplant (OLT) recipients, (2) the temporal relationship between recurrent allograft hepatitis and the onset of PTDM, and (3) the effects of antiviral therapy on glycemic control.