Reversal of protein-losing enteropathy with heparin therapy in an adult patient with congenital heart disease [1]

Digestion

Volumn 74, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 206-207

  Tsuzuki, Takao ^a   Okada, Hiroyuki ^a   Takenaka, Ryuta ^a   Kawahara, Yoshiro ^a   Kato, Jun ^a   Okazaki, Hiroaki ^b   Kawamoto, Hirofumi ^a   Shiratori, Yasushi ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Fujita Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; HEPARIN; STEROID;

ADULT; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ANAMNESIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLONOSCOPY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FONTAN PROCEDURE; GASTROSCOPY; HEPARINIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; LETTER; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOSING GASTROENTEROPATHY; PULMONARY VEIN OBSTRUCTION; SCINTISCANNING;

ADULT; ALBUMINS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FONTAN PROCEDURE; HEPARIN; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; MALE; PROTEIN-LOSING ENTEROPATHIES; PULMONARY VALVE STENOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34247235603     PISSN: 00122823     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000100505     Document Type: Letter

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