Improved survival with nonselective beta blockers

Hepatology

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2091-2092

  Thalheimer, Ulrich ^a   Bosch, Jaime ^b   Patch, David ^a   Burroughs, Andrew ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; PROPRANOLOL;

BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL PERITONITIS; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFICACY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES BLEEDING; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LETTER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LONG TERM CARE; MORTALITY; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK REDUCTION; SURVIVAL RATE; VENOUS PRESSURE; BLEEDING; DRUG EFFECT; FOLLOW UP; NOTE; RISK FACTOR; VARICOSIS;

ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; RISK FACTORS; VARICOSE VEINS;

EID: 58149401263     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.22600     Document Type: Letter

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