Preventive strategies in chronic liver disease: Part II. Cirrhosis

American Family Physician

Volumn 64, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 1735-1740

  Riley III, T R ^a   Bhatti, A M ^a  

^a PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2 INHIBITOR; HEPATITIS A VACCINE; HEPATITIS B VACCINE; INFLUENZA VACCINE; ISOSORBIDE MONONITRATE; NADOLOL; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; NORFLOXACIN; PARACETAMOL; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; PROPRANOLOL;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ASCITES; BACTERIAL PERITONITIS; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIET RESTRICTION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; ECHOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES BLEEDING; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TOXICITY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; NEPHROTOXICITY; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REVIEW; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; VACCINATION;

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; ASCITES; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; DIET; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PALLIATIVE CARE; PERITONITIS; PRIMARY PREVENTION; VACCINATION;

EID: 0035890356     PISSN: 0002838X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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