The effect of liver transplantation on autonomic dysfunction in patients with end-stage liver disease

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 235-239

  Carey, Elizabeth J ^a   Gautam, Manjushree ^b   Ingall, Timothy ^a   Douglas, David D ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; RAPAMYCIN; TACROLIMUS;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ADULT; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MONOTHERAPY; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SWEATING;

AGED; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFLEX; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 39449088497     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.21350     Document Type: Article

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