Dialysis reduces portal pressure in patients with chronic hepatitis C

Artificial Organs

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 570-579

  Khurana, Sandeep ^a   Simcox, Thomas ^a   Twaddell, William ^a   Drachenberg, Cinthia ^a   Flasar, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dialysis; Hepatic venous pressure gradient; Hepatitis C; Portal hypertension; Renal failure

Indexed keywords

BODY FLUIDS; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; PATHOLOGY; PRESSURE GRADIENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; UREA;

CHRONIC HEPATITIS; HEPATIC VENOI PRESSURE GRADIENT; HEPATITIS C; LATE STAGE; LIVER BIOPSIES; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PRESSURE GRADIENT MEASUREMENTS; RELATIVE RISKS; RENAL FAILURE; VENOUS PRESSURE;

DIALYSIS;

ALBUMIN; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; BILIRUBIN; CREATININE; UREA;

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIALYSIS; HEMODIALYSIS; HEPATITIS C; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER FIBROSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD PRESSURE; PRESSURE GRADIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; STAGING; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS;

HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; PORTAL PRESSURE; RENAL DIALYSIS;

EID: 77954350439     PISSN: 0160564X     EISSN: 15251594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1594.2009.00925.x     Document Type: Article

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