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A total of forty-four biopsies from nine liver transplantation patients, who had developed complications postoperatively, were studied histologically and, in part, electron-microscopically. Morphologic signs of acute rejection were seen in three patients, while there were indications of chronic rejection in one patient. In combined lesions, such as drug-induced hepatosis, cholangitis, hepatitis, and rejections, the interpretation of biopsy findings may be difficult, and special entities cannot in every case be separated unequivocally. Changes of serum bilirubin and of serum enzyme activity do not run entirely parallel to the microscopically detectable structural lesions. For diagnosis of complications after liver transplantation both the morphologic and the clinical findings must be considered.
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Kunz, J., David, H., Kranz, D. et al. Zur Aussagekraft histopathologischer Befunde nach Lebertransplantation anhand bioptischer Verlaufsuntersuchungen. Klin Wochenschr 62, 1157–1164 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01712182
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