Biliary drainage transiently relieves intractable pruritus in primary biliary cirrhosis [3]

Hepatology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 280-281

  Beuers, Ulrich ^a   Gerken, Guido ^b   Pusl, Thomas ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPRURITIC AGENT; BILE ACID; COLESTYRAMINE; ENZYME INDUCING AGENT; NALTREXONE; OPIATE ANTAGONIST; RIFAMPICIN; URSODEOXYCHOLIC ACID;

ANION EXCHANGE; BILE ACID BLOOD LEVEL; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; BILIARY TRACT DRAINAGE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOSCOPIC PAPILLOTOMY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GERMANY; HUMAN; INTRAHEPATIC CHOLESTASIS; LETTER; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PRIMARY SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; SCORING SYSTEM; STENT;

BILE; DRAINAGE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, BILIARY; PRURITUS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33745907551     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.21271     Document Type: Letter

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