Molecular adsorbents recirculating system in patients with severe liver failure. Experience of a single Romanian centre

Journal of Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 311-316

  Rusu, Elena Emanuela ^a   Voiculescu, Mihai ^a   Zilisteanu, Diana Silvia ^a   Ismail, Gener ^a  

^a FUNDENI CLINICAL INSTITUTE   (Romania)

Author keywords

Liver failure; Liver transplantation; MARS

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALBUMIN DIALYSIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; JAUNDICE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER RESECTION; MALE; PRURITUS; ROMANIA; SEPSIS; SURVIVAL; ARTIFICIAL LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER, ARTIFICIAL; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 73949161105     PISSN: 18418724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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