Quantitative magnetic resonance imaging indicates brain tissue alterations in patients after liver transplantation.

PURPOSE:To investigate cerebral microstructural alterations in patients treated with calcineurin inhibitors (CNI) after orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) using quantitative magnetic resonance imaging (qMRI) and a cross-sectional study design. METHODS:Cerebral qMRI was performed in 85 patients i...

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Main Authors: Lukas Laurids Goede, Henning Pflugrad, Birte Schmitz, Heinrich Lanfermann, Anita Blanka Tryc, Hannelore Barg-Hock, Jürgen Klempnauer, Karin Weissenborn, Xiao-Qi Ding
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0222934