Original Articles : Clinical ScienceCyclosporin versus Tacrolimus as Primary Immunosuppressant After Liver Transplantation:A Meta-Analysis
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Key words:
Calcineurin
immunosuppression
liver transplantation
meta-analysis
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This paper is based upon a Cochrane report: Haddad EM, McAlister VC, Renouf E, Malthaner R, Kjaer MS, Gluud LL. Cyclosporin versus tacrolimus for liver transplanted patients. In: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2006. It was presented to the Joint International Congress of ILTS, ELITA and LICAGE at Milan, Italy in May 2006.
Conflict of interest
No funding was received for this study. Companies that make cyclosporin and tacrolimus and the principal investigators of each study were contacted in the course of the review. Vivian McAlister took part in clinical trials sponsored by each company and received, more than 10 years ago, laboratory grants-in-aid from each company.
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