Successful long-term treatment of portal-systemic encephalopathy by the benzodiazepine antagonist flumazenil

Gastroenterology

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 1989, Pages 240-243

  Ferenci, Peter ^a   Grimm, Georg ^a   Meryn, Siegfried ^a   Gangl, Alfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUMAZENIL;

ADULT; BRAIN DISEASE; CASE REPORT; COMA; DIET; EVOKED BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LIVER TUMOR; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; BENZODIAZEPINES; CASE REPORT; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FLUMAZENIL; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0024575970     PISSN: 00165085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0016-5085(89)90787-7     Document Type: Article

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