Night blindness secondary to vitamin A deficiency in a patient with bile duct strictures after liver transplantation

Transplantation

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 537-539

  Urayama, Shiro ^a   Lissoos, Trevor W ^a   Fishman, Gerald A ^b   Grover, Sandeep ^b   Schiano, Thomas D ^a   Conjeevaram, Hari ^a   Baker, Alfred L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; AZATHIOPRINE; BILIRUBIN; CYCLOSPORIN; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; PREDNISONE; RETINOL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; CASE REPORT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTRORETINOGRAM; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; NIGHT BLINDNESS; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIMARY SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINOL DEFICIENCY; SUPPLEMENTATION; VISUAL DISORDER;

CHOLESTASIS; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NIGHT BLINDNESS; VITAMIN A DEFICIENCY;

EID: 0032572711     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199808270-00022     Document Type: Article

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