Long-term effect of liver transplantation on cirrhotic autonomic cardiac dysfunction

Digestive and Liver Disease

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 131-136

  Baratta, Luigi ^a   Tubani, Luigi ^a   Merli, Manuela ^a   Labbadia, Francesca ^a   Facchini, Donatella ^a   De Marco, Rosanna ^a   Rossi, Massimo ^a   Attili, Adolfo Francesco ^a   Berloco, Pasquale ^a   Ginanni Corradini, Stefano ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cardiac autonomic dysfunction; Cirrhosis; Heart rate variability; Liver transplantation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PORTOCAVAL SHUNT; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; AUTONOMIC CARDIAC DYSFUNCTION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; HEPATITIS C; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM PATTERN; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVORS;

CYCLOSPORIN; INTERFERON; RIBAVIRIN; TACROLIMUS;

EID: 73849105385     PISSN: 15908658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dld.2009.05.009     Document Type: Article

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