Protein-losing enteropathy: Case illustrations and clinical review

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 43-49

  Umar, Sarah B ^a   Dibaise, John K ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ALBUMIN TC 99M; CETUXIMAB; HEPARIN; OCTREOTIDE;

CENTRAL VENOUS PRESSURE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CROHN DISEASE; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FONTAN PROCEDURE; GASTRECTOMY; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPOPROTEINEMIA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LYMPHOMA; MALNUTRITION; MENETRIER DISEASE; MESENTERY LYMPH NODE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DIET; PROTEIN LOSING GASTROENTEROPATHY; REVIEW; SCINTIGRAPHY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

ADULT; AGED; ALPHA 1-ANTITRYPSIN; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FECES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION THERAPY; PROTEIN-LOSING ENTEROPATHIES;

EID: 73849102113     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ajg.2009.561     Document Type: Review

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