Chronic liver disease related mortality pattern in Northern Pakistan

Journal of the College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 495-497

  Khokhar, Nasir ^a   Niazi, Saima A ^a  

^a SHIFA INTERNATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Ascites; Chronic hepatitis B; Chronic hepatitis C; Chronic liver disease; Gastrointestinal bleeding; Mortality

Indexed keywords

DIURETIC AGENT; FUROSEMIDE; OCTREOTIDE; RECOMBINANT HUMAN SERUM ALBUMIN; SPIRONOLACTONE;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASCITES; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; JAUNDICE; LIVER FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MORTALITY; PAKISTAN; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; SCLEROTHERAPY; SODIUM RESTRICTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEPATITIS, VIRAL, HUMAN; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER FAILURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAKISTAN;

EID: 0142106292     PISSN: 1022386X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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