MARS and the failing liver - Any help from the outer space?

Hepatology

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1682-1684

  Ferenci, Peter ^a   Kramer, Ludwig ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOARTIFICIAL LIVER; BRAIN EDEMA; CELL CULTURE; DETOXIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMOPERFUSION; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; INFECTION; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER SUPPORT; MENTAL HEALTH; MORTALITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

HUMANS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER, ARTIFICIAL;

EID: 37749046443     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.22031     Document Type: Editorial

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