Lack of prognostic usefulness of hepatic venous pressures and hemodynamic values in a select group of patients with severe alcoholic cirrhosis

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 97, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1187-1190

  Deltenre, Pierre ^a   Rufat, Pierre ^a   Hillaire, Sophie ^a   Elman, Annie ^a   Moreau, Richard ^a   Valla, Dominique ^a   Lebrec, Didier ^a  

^a BEAUJON HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN;

ADULT; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART OUTPUT; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTHROMBIN TIME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

BILIRUBIN; CARDIAC OUTPUT; FEMALE; HEPATIC VEINS; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, ALCOHOLIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VENOUS PRESSURE;

EID: 0036256139     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9270(02)04058-3     Document Type: Article

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