Plasma viscosity changes in patients with liver cirrhosis

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 102, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1013-1018

  Gokturk, Huseyin Savas ^a   Demir, Mehmet ^a   Ozturk, Nevin Akcaer ^a   Unler, Gulhan Kanat ^a   Kulaksizoglu, Sevsen ^a   Kozanoglu, Ilknur ^a   Serin, Ender ^a   Yilmaz, Ugur ^a  

^a BASKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; FIBRINOGEN;

ADULT; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD RHEOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FIBRINOGEN BLOOD LEVEL; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PLASMA VISCOSITY; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; VISCOMETRY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PROTEINS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; SERUM ALBUMIN;

EID: 70349823643     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SMJ.0b013e3181b50057     Document Type: Article

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