Precipitating factors of hepatic encephalopathy in patients with chronic liver disease at civil hospital Karachi

Journal of the College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 130-131

  Rohra, Dileep K ^a,c   Jaipal, ^b   Khowaja, Ameer A ^a   Mahmood, Khalid ^b   Ahuja, Kanya Lal ^a  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

^b CIVIL HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

^c NONE   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; AMMONIA; FUROSEMIDE; NEUROTRANSMITTER; PROPRANOLOL;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PERITONITIS; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CONSTIPATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; PAKISTAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; QUALITY OF LIFE;

CHRONIC DISEASE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMANS; LIVER DISEASES; PAKISTAN; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 42149157264     PISSN: 1022386X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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