Should impaired liver function be held responsible for cognitive impairment and poor health-related quality of life in alcoholic cirrhosis? [4]

Hepatology

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 950-

  Paparrigopoulos, Thomas ^a   Tzavellas, Elias ^a   Karaiskos, Dimitris ^a   Liappas, Ioannis ^a  

^a NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LACTULOSE;

ALCOHOL ABUSE; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; LETTER; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE;

COGNITION DISORDERS; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, ALCOHOLIC; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 34548747434     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.21851     Document Type: Letter

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