Patterns of regional sympathetic nerve traffic in preascitic and ascitic cirrhosis

Hepatology

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1113-1118

  Pozzi, Massimo ^a   Grassi, Guido ^a   Redaelli, Elena ^a   Dell'Oro, Raffaella ^a   Ratti, Laura ^a   Redaelli, Alessandro ^a   Foglia, Gerardo ^a   Di Lelio, Alessandro ^b   Mancia, Giuseppe ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b SAN GERARDO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c ISTITUTO AUXOLOGICO ITALIANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NORADRENALIN;

ADRENERGIC ACTIVITY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASCITES; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; NEUROGRAPHY; NORADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; PATHOGENESIS; PERONEUS NERVE; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SKIN;

EID: 0035183540     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/jhep.2001.29198     Document Type: Article

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