Measurement of the expiratory ammonia concentration and its clinical significance

Metabolic Brain Disease

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 161-169

  Wakabayashi, Hiroyuki ^a   Kuwabara, Yoshihiro ^a   Murata, Hiroyuki ^a   Kobashi, Kyoich ^b   Watanabe, Akiharu ^a  

^a TOYAMA MEDICAL AND PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ammonia; Expiratory air; Gaseous ammonia; Hepatic encephalopathy; Liver cirrhosis; NH4+

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA;

ADULT; AMMONIA BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EXPIRATORY FLOW; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERAMMONEMIA; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NEUROTOXICITY; SENSOR;

AMMONIA; BREATH TESTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0031005957     PISSN: 08857490     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:MEBR.0000007110.79274.37     Document Type: Article

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