Pituitary hormone circadian rhythm alterations in cirrhosis patients with subclinical hepatic encephalopathy

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 14, Issue 26, 2008, Pages 4190-4196

  Velissaris, Dimitrios ^a   Karanikolas, Menelaos ^a   Kalogeropoulos, Andreas ^a   Solomou, Ekaterini ^a   Polychronopoulos, Panagiotis ^a   Thomopoulos, Konstantinos ^a   Labropoulou Karatza, Chrissoula ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Circadian rhythms; Liver cirrhosis; Melatonin; Minimal hepatic encephalopathy; Pituitary hormones

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE; HYPOPHYSIS HORMONE; MELATONIN; PROLACTIN; THYROTROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE RELEASE; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FAILURE; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SCORING SYSTEM; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; AGED; BLOOD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED;

AGED; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MELATONIN; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY HORMONES; PROLACTIN; THYROTROPIN;

EID: 54049090098     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.14.4190     Document Type: Article

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