Prognostic factors in severe exacerbation of chronic hepatitis B

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 979-984

  Yuen, Man Fung ^a   Sablon, Erwin ^b   Hui, Chee Kin ^a   Li, Tak Ming ^c   Yuan, He Jun ^a   Wong, Danny Ka Ho ^a   Doutreloigne, Joke ^b   Bogaerts, Veerle ^b   Wong, Benjamin Chun Yu ^a   Fan, Sheung Tat ^a   Lai, Ching Lung ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b INNOGENETICS   (Belgium)

^c Macau Central Hospital   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALBUMIN; ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; AMMONIA; BILIRUBIN; BIOCHEMICAL MARKER; CORE PROTEIN; CREATININE; UREA; VIRUS DNA; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; LAMIVUDINE;

ADULT; AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE EXACERBATION; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROMOTER REGION; PROTHROMBIN TIME; SCORING SYSTEM; ADOLESCENT; DRUG EFFECT; FIBROSIS; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SEROLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ASCITES; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS B, CHRONIC; HUMANS; LAMIVUDINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEROLOGIC TESTS;

EID: 0037447201     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/374226     Document Type: Article

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