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List of works by Hugo E Vargas

A concise update on the status of liver transplantation for hepatitis B virus: the challenges in 2002.

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A difficult case of primary sclerosing cholangitis

scientific article published on 01 November 2006

A randomized phase 2b study of peginterferon lambda-1a for the treatment of chronic HCV infection

scientific article published on 24 July 2014

A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of interferon-alpha and amantadine versus interferon-alpha alone in the treatment of patients with chronic hepatitis C

scientific article published on 01 July 2002

Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure: Getting ready for prime-time.

scientific article published on 24 April 2018

Amplification and fusion of long fragments of hepatitis C virus genome

scientific article published on November 1997

An unusual occurrence of giant cell hepatitis.

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Analysis of hepatitis C virus quasispecies transmission and evolution in patients infected through blood transfusion

scientific article published on September 2004

Artificial neural network and tissue genotyping of hepatocellular carcinoma in liver-transplant recipients: prediction of recurrence

scientific article published in June 2005

Association between hepatitis B virus core promoter rearrangements and hepatocellular carcinoma

scientific article published in March 1998

Belatacept-based immunosuppression in de novo liver transplant recipients: 1-year experience from a phase II randomized study

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Benefits of Direct-Acting Antivirals for Hepatitis C.

scientific article published on 17 October 2017

CASE REPORT: Primary Biliary Cirrhosis and Systemic Amyloidosis, a New Association

scientific article published on 01 August 2004

Changes in hepatitis C virus population in serum and peripheral blood mononuclear cells in chronically infected patients receiving liver graft from infected donors

scientific article published in September 2001

Child-Turcotte-Pugh Class is Best at Stratifying Risk in Variceal Hemorrhage: Analysis of a US Multicenter Prospective Study

scientific article published on 24 October 2016

Clinical Outcomes of Portosystemic Shunts on the Outcome of Liver Transplantation

scientific article published on 24 December 2019

Clinical and virologic outcomes of hepatitis B and C viral coinfection after liver transplantation: effect of viral hepatitis D

scientific article published on 01 January 2000

Clinical outcomes of hepatitis C treatment before and after kidney transplantation and its impact on time to transplant: A multicenter study

scientific article published on 08 June 2018

Clinical significance of elevated alpha-fetoprotein in adults and children.

scientific article published on August 2001

Comments on cochrane review on direct-acting antivirals for hepatitis C.

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Controversies in the management of hepatitis C patients with advanced fibrosis and cirrhosis.

scientific article published on March 2004

Controversies in the management of hepatitis C virus infection after liver transplantation.

scientific article published on November 2003

Detection and Analysis of Hepatitis C Virus Sequences in Cerebrospinal Fluid

scientific article (publication date: October 2002)

Detection of hepatitis C virus replication in peripheral blood mononuclear cells after orthotopic liver transplantation.

scientific article published on September 1998

Detection of hepatitis C virus sequences in brain tissue obtained in recurrent hepatitis C after liver transplantation.

scientific article published in November 2002

Detection of hepatitis G virus replication sites by using highly strand-specific Tth-based reverse transcriptase PCR.

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Distribution of infecting hepatitis C virus genotypes in end-stage liver disease patients at a large American transplantation center

scientific article published on February 1997

Docetaxel Induced Sclerosing Cholangitis

scientific article published on 01 December 2015

Effectiveness of Simeprevir Plus Sofosbuvir, With or Without Ribavirin, in Real-World Patients With HCV Genotype 1 Infection

scientific article published on 21 October 2015

Endoscopic treatment of anastomotic biliary strictures after deceased donor liver transplantation: outcomes after maximal stent therapy

scientific article published in July 2007

Endoscopic treatment of anastomotic biliary strictures after living donor liver transplantation: outcomes after maximal stent therapy

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Erythropoietin does not increase the frequency of thromboembolic events or hepatocellular carcinoma in hepatitis C patients treated with combination antiviral therapy

scientific article published on 01 August 2008

Esophageal capsule endoscopy for screening and surveillance of esophageal varices in patients with portal hypertension

scientific article published on 01 May 2008

Gastrointestinal endoscopy in the cirrhotic patient

scientific article published on 12 May 2015

Hepatic B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma of MALT type in the liver explant of a patient with chronic hepatitis C infection

scientific article published on 01 July 2005

Hepatic Encephalopathy Is Associated With Mortality in Patients With Cirrhosis Independent of Other Extrahepatic Organ Failures

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Hepatic steatosis in hepatitis C virus genotype 3 infection: does it correlate with body mass index, fibrosis, and HCV risk factors?

scientific article published on January 2004

Hepatitis C Treatment in 2016: Reasons to Be an OPTIMIST.

scientific article published on 17 March 2016

Hepatitis C for half a century

scientific article published on 01 November 2000

Hepatitis C virus antiviral therapy in patients with cirrhosis.

scientific article published in September 2004

Hepatitis C virus in peripheral blood mononuclear cells from a chronically infected patient receiving liver graft from infected donor

scientific article published in February 1999

Hepatitis C virus infection in nonliver solid organ transplant candidates and recipients.

scientific article published on June 2015

Hepatitis C virus infection with hepatocellular carcinoma: not a controversial indication for liver transplantation.

scientific article published on August 2004

Hepatitis C virus negative strand RNA is not detected in peripheral blood mononuclear cells and viral sequences are identical to those in serum: a case against extrahepatic replication.

scientific article published on November 1997

Hepatitis C virus quasi-species dynamics predict progression of fibrosis after liver transplantation

scientific article published on 10 May 2004

Hepatitis C virus quasispecies in patients infected with HIV-1: correlation with extrahepatic viral replication.

scientific article published on August 1998

Hepatitis C virus quasispecies: misunderstood and mistreated?

scientific article published on October 2003

Hepatitis C virus recurrence in living donor liver transplant recipients

scientific article published on January 2004

Hepatitis G virus coinfection in hepatitis C virus-infected liver transplant recipients.

scientific article published on September 1997

Hepatitis G virus infection in American patients with cryptogenic cirrhosis: no evidence for liver replication

scientific article published on December 1997

Hepatopulmonary syndrome after living donor liver transplantation and deceased donor liver transplantation: a single-center experience

scientific article published on 01 April 2004

Hydroxycut-related Vanishing Bile Duct Syndrome

scientific article published on 02 May 2016

IDSA/AASLD response to Cochrane Review on Direct-Acting Antivirals for Hepatitis C.

scientific article published on 17 July 2017

Impact of anti-hepatitis Bc-positive grafts on the outcome of liver transplantation for HBV-related cirrhosis

scientific article published in May 2002

Inpatient admissions for drug-induced liver injury: results from a single center.

scientific article published on 05 April 2008

Lack of evidence for GB virus C/hepatitis G virus replication in peripheral blood mononuclear cells

scientific article published on February 1998

Lack of evidence for hepatitis G virus replication in the livers of patients coinfected with hepatitis C and G viruses

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Late-onset renal failure after liver transplantation: role of posttransplant alcohol use.

scientific article published in February 2000

Ledipasvir and Sofosbuvir Plus Ribavirin for Treatment of HCV Infection in Patients With Advanced Liver Disease

scientific article published on 15 May 2015

Liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma: the MELD impact.

scientific article published on January 2004

Liver transplantation in the MELD era: a single-center experience

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Liver transplantation: from Child to MELD.

scientific article published on July 2009

Living donor liver transplantation for hepatitis C-related cirrhosis: no difference in histological recurrence when compared to deceased donor liver transplantation recipients

scientific article published in April 2006

Living donor liver transplantation in polycystic liver disease

scientific article published on 01 May 2008

Macro-aspartate aminotransferase and monoclonal gammopathy: a review of two cases.

scientific article published on 15 March 2007

Magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) in assessing hepatic fibrosis: performance in a cohort of patients with histological data.

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Magnetic resonance elastography can discriminate normal vs. abnormal liver biopsy in candidates for live liver donation.

scientific article published on April 2015

Management of hepatitis C virus infection in the setting of liver transplantation.

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Management of portal hypertension-related bleeding.

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Multicenter experience using simeprevir and sofosbuvir with or without ribavirin to treat hepatitis C genotype 1 after liver transplant

scientific article published on 27 April 2015

Multicenter experience using simeprevir and sofosbuvir with or without ribavirin to treat hepatitis C genotype 1 in patients with cirrhosis.

scientific article published on 11 June 2015

Multicenter experience using telaprevir or boceprevir with peginterferon and ribavirin to treat hepatitis C genotype 1 after liver transplantation

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NACSELD Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure (NACSELD-ACLF) Score Predicts 30-Day Survival in Hospitalized Patients with Cirrhosis.

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Natural history of hepatitis C and outcomes following liver transplantation

scientific article published on 01 March 2004

Natural history of post-liver transplantation hepatitis C: A review of factors that may influence its course.

scientific article published on December 2009

New Onset Diabetes Mellitus in Living Donor versus Deceased Donor Liver Transplant Recipients: Analysis of the UNOS/OPTN Database

scientific article published on 24 September 2013

New Therapies for Hepatitis C Virus Infection

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New frontiers in small-bowel imaging: the expanding technology of capsule endoscopy and its impact in clinical gastroenterology.

scientific article published on January 2008

Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug-induced hepatoxicity.

scientific article published on 04 September 2013

Outcome of liver transplantation in hepatitis C virus-infected patients who received hepatitis C virus-infected grafts

scientific article published in July 1999

Peginterferon-α-2b and ribavirin for hepatitis C recurrence postorthotopic liver transplantation

scientific article published in September 2012

Pegylated interferon and ribavirin failures: is retreatment an option?

scientific article published in March 2007

Persistence of Virologic Response after Liver Transplant in Hepatitis C Patients Treated with Ledipasvir / Sofosbuvir Plus Ribavirin Pretransplant.

scientific article published on May 2017

Persistence of hepatitis C virus in peripheral blood mononuclear cells of sustained viral responders to pegylated interferon and ribavirin therapy

scientific article published on 2 July 2008

Phase II study of avatrombopag in thrombocytopenic patients with cirrhosis undergoing an elective procedure.

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Portal hypertension due to a splenic arteriovenous fistula: a case report

scientific article published on 01 June 2006

Portal vein thrombosis

scientific article published on 01 December 2007

Portal vein thrombosis in patients with end stage liver disease awaiting liver transplantation: outcome of anticoagulation.

scientific article published on 12 January 2013

Preoperative dobutamine stress echocardiographic findings and subsequent short-term adverse cardiac events after orthotopic liver transplantation

scientific article published on June 2008

Pretransplant fasting glucose predicts new-onset diabetes after liver transplantation.

scientific article published on 29 January 2012

Progression of liver fibrosis in patients with chronic hepatitis C after orthotopic liver transplantation

scientific article published on November 2003

Quality of life in long-term survivors after liver transplantation: impact of recurrent viral hepatitis C virus hepatitis

scientific article published in February 2000

Relationship between sarcopenia, six-minute walk distance and health-related quality of life in liver transplant candidates

scientific article published on 9 January 2015

Reply to: Comment on: "Clinical Outcomes of Portosystemic shunts on the outcome of Liver Transplantation" Manuscript ID LT-20-497

scientific article published on 04 August 2020

Retransplantation for hepatitis C: results of a U.S. multicenter retransplant study

scientific article published on 01 September 2007

Reversal of hepatorenal syndrome type 1 with terlipressin plus albumin vs. placebo plus albumin in a pooled analysis of the OT-0401 and REVERSE randomised clinical studies.

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Search for hepatitis C virus extrahepatic replication sites in patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome: specific detection of negative-strand viral RNA in various tissues.

scientific article published on November 1998

Search for hepatitis C virus negative-strand RNA sequences and analysis of viral sequences in the central nervous system: evidence of replication

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Selection of different 5' untranslated region hepatitis C virus variants during post-transfusion and post-transplantation infection.

scientific article published in July 2006

Severe Hepatotoxicity Caused by a Methasteron-containing Performance-enhancing Supplement

scientific article published on 01 March 2009

Short-term cardiac and noncardiac mortality following liver transplantation.

scientific article published on 12 August 2010

Should antihepatitis B virus core positive or antihepatitis C virus core positive subjects be accepted as organ donors for liver transplantation?

scientific article published on January 2007

Six-minute walk distance predicts mortality in liver transplant candidates

scientific article published in December 2010

The Impact of Albumin Use on Resolution of Hyponatremia in Hospitalized Patients With Cirrhosis

scientific article published on 08 June 2018

The gastroenterologist's guide to management of the post-liver transplant patient

scientific article published on 11 May 2018

The influence of hepatitis C virus genotypes on the outcome of liver transplantation

scientific article published on January 1998

The origin of hepatitis C virus reinfecting transplanted livers: serum-derived versus peripheral blood mononuclear cell-derived virus.

scientific article published on 31 January 2002

The presence of active hepatitis C virus replication in lymphoid tissue in patients coinfected with human immunodeficiency virus type 1.

scientific article published on October 1998

The transplantation candidate with alcohol misuse: the selection minefield

scientific article published in November 2008

The use of hepatitis C-infected grafts in liver transplantation

scientific article published on November 1, 2003

Transient left ventricular apical ballooning syndrome (Takotsubo cardiomyopathy) following orthotopic liver transplantation

scientific article published on 01 September 2007

Treatment of hepatitis C in liver transplant recipients.

scientific article published on February 2009

Treatment of hepatitis C in renal transplantation candidates: a single-center experience

scientific article published in August 2010

Treatment of recurrent hepatitis C infection after liver transplantation with combination of pegylated interferon alpha2b and ribavirin: an open-label series.

scientific article published on January 2004

Twice-Daily Telaprevir for Posttransplant Genotype 1 Hepatitis C Virus: A Prospective Safety, Efficacy, and Pharmacokinetics Study.

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Virologically compromised donor grafts in liver transplantation.

scientific article published in October 2004

Vitamin A toxicity: when one a day doesn't keep the doctor away

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Vitamin D deficiency, parathyroid hormone levels, and bone disease among patients with end-stage liver disease and normal serum creatinine awaiting liver transplantation

scientific article published on 21 April 2014