Improved quality of life in patients with refractory or recidivant ascites after insertion of transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunts

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Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 127-130

  Gülberg, Veit ^a   Liss, Ingrid ^a   Bilzer, Manfred ^a   Waggershauser, Tobias ^a   Reiser, Maximilian ^a   Gerbes, Alexander L ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ascites; Cirrhosis; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASCITES; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; PARACENTESIS; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; CLINICAL TRIAL; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENT DISEASE;

ASCITES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTASYSTEMIC SHUNT, TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECURRENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036434135     PISSN: 00122823     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000065593     Document Type: Article

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