Characteristics of ascitic fluid in cardiac ascites

Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1102-1105

  Christou, Leonidas ^a   Economou, Michael ^a   Economou, Georgios ^a   Kolettis, Theophilos M ^a   Tsianos, Epameinondas V ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cardiac ascites; Exudate; Furosemide; Heart failure

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; FUROSEMIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASCITES; ASCITES FLUID; ASCITES FLUID ANALYSIS; CARDIAC ASCITES; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; EXUDATE; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERUM;

AGED; ALBUMINS; ASCITES; ASCITIC FLUID; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIURETICS; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; EXUDATES AND TRANSUDATES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FUROSEMIDE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 34548132057     PISSN: 00365521     EISSN: 15027708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365520701272433     Document Type: Article

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