Cyclosporine A C-2h Monitoring Versus Tacrolimus C-0h Monitoring in de Novo Liver Transplant Recipients

Each patient was given two 20mg doses of Basiliximab as intravenous bolus injection at Day 0 and Day 4 post-transplant surgery.

Methylprednisolone was given as an intravenous bolus of 500mg during transplant surgery

Post-operatively prednisone was tapered from an initial dose of 20mg/day to zero at 3 months or continued at 5-10mg if the indication for Orthotopic Liver Transplantation (OLTx) was of auto-immune nature.