Effects of oral branched-chain amino acid granules on event-free survival in patients with liver cirrhosis

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 705-713

  Muto, Yasutoshi ^a   Sato, Shunichi ^b   Watanabe, Akiharu ^c   Moriwaki, Hisataka ^d   Suzuki, Kazuyuki ^b   Kato, Akinobu ^b   Kato, Masahiko ^e   Nakamura, Teiji ^f   Higuchi, Kiyohiro ^g   Nishiguchi, Shuhei ^h   Kumada, Hiromitsu ⁱ  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^d GIFU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e SUGIYAMA JOGAKUEN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f KANAGAWA UNIVERSITY OF HUMAN SERVICES   (Japan)

^g Itoigawa General Hospital   (Japan)

^h OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

ⁱ TORANOMON HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; BRANCHED CHAIN AMINO ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DIET THERAPY; DISEASE COURSE; ESOPHAGUS RUPTURE; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HEALTH; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER CARCINOGENESIS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PERCEPTION; PRESCRIPTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SAMPLE SIZE; SHORT FORM 36; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADULT; AGED; AMINO ACIDS, BRANCHED-CHAIN; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 22144472524     PISSN: 15423565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1542-3565(05)00017-0     Document Type: Article

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