Treatment of a right-sided pleural effusion in a patient with liver cirrhosis

Chest

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 248-250

  Buchholz, Susanne ^a   Kaplan, Vladimir ^a   Hauser, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUROSEMIDE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LACTULOSE; SPIRONOLACTONE;

AGED; ARTICLE; ASCITES FLUID; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIURETIC THERAPY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; DYSPNEA; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; HYDROTHORAX; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PERCUSSION; PLEURA EFFUSION; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SODIUM RESTRICTION; TACHYPNEA; THORACOCENTESIS; THORAX; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 0033983864     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.117.1.248     Document Type: Article

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