Risk factors for infections in cirrhotic patients with and without hepatocellular carcinoma

Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1028-1034

  Yoneyama, Keiichiro ^a   Miyagishi, Kaori ^a   Kiuchi, Yuji ^a   Shibata, Minoru ^b   Mitamura, Keiji ^b  

^a SHOWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SHOWA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Albumin; Bacterial infection; Gram positive bacteria; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Liver cirrhosis; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BILIRUBIN; CHOLESTEROL; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL PERITONITIS; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHOLECYSTITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECUBITUS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; HYPERALIMENTATION; INFECTION RISK; LIVER ABSCESS; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, ALCOHOLIC; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, BILIARY; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROBABILITY; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0036961019     PISSN: 09441174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s005350200173     Document Type: Article

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