Small bowel bacterial overgrowth as a cause of chronic diarrhea after liver transplantation in children

Liver Transplantation and Surgery

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 166-169

  Mack, D R ^a   Dhawan, A ^a   Kaufman, S S ^a   Langnas, A N ^a   Seemayer, T A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOSPORIN; DIURETIC AGENT; GENTAMICIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; METRONIDAZOLE; PREDNISONE; TACROLIMUS;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL OVERGROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CHRONIC DIARRHEA; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; DUODENITIS; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; INFANT; LIVER SURGERY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALABSORPTION; MALE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031951341     PISSN: 10743022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.500040202     Document Type: Article

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