Relationship between changes in brain MRI and 1H-MRS, severity of chronic liver damage, and recovery after liver transplantation

Experimental Biology and Medicine

Volumn 234, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1075-1085

  Long, Li Ling ^a   Li, Xiang Rong ^a   Huang, Zhong Kui ^a   Jiang, Yue Ming ^a   Fu, Sherleen X ^b   Zheng, Wei ^b  

^a GUANGXI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Child Pugh; Choline; Glutamine; Hepatic encephalopathy; Liver transplant; Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS); Manganese

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; CHOLINE; CHROMIUM; GLUTAMINE; MANGANESE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLOOD; BRAIN; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER INJURY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HEPATIC INSUFFICIENCY; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349137617     PISSN: 15353702     EISSN: 15353699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3181/0903-RM-118     Document Type: Article

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