Treatment of hepatic encephalopathy by on-line hemodiafiltration: A case series study

BMC Emergency Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Arata, Shinju ^a   Tanaka, Katsuaki ^a   Takayama, Kazuhisa ^a   Moriwaki, Yoshihiro ^a   Suzuki, Noriyuki ^a   Sugiyama, Mitsugi ^a   Aoyagi, Kazuo ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTECAVIR; LAMIVUDINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL LIVER; BRAIN EDEMA; CASE STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; FATALITY; FEMALE; HEMODIAFILTRATION; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MALE; ONLINE SYSTEM; PLASMAPHERESIS; TREATMENT INDICATION; INSTRUMENTATION; JAPAN; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HEMODIAFILTRATION; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952454249     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471227X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-227X-10-10     Document Type: Article

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