A further 2 patients with hepatitis-B-related decompensated liver cirrhosis treated with mobilised autologous peripheral blood monocytes (PBMC) also showed an improvement in serum albumin, bilirubin, alanine aminotransferase (ALT), aspartate aminotransferase (AST), and CTP scores for greater than one year following transfusion [40]. Here, GPT is linked to hepatitis B virus infection.