Low serum albumin level is risk factor for patients with percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy

Internal Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 2283-2288

  Tominaga, Naoyuki ^a   Shimoda, Ryo ^a   Iwakiri, Ryuichi ^a   Tsuruoka, Nanae ^a   Sakata, Yasuhisa ^a   Hara, Hideo ^a   Hayashi, Shinichiro ^a   Morita, Shigeki ^a   Hamasaki, Yuhei ^a   Matsushima, Toshio ^a   Miyazaki, Kohji ^a   Node, Koichi ^a   Fujimoto, Kazuma ^a  

^a SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

1 year survival; Lymphocyte count; Malignant diseases; Nutrients; Serum albumin

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; FEMALE; GASTROSTOMY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SERUM ALBUMIN; SURVIVAL RATE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78249252633     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.49.3057     Document Type: Article

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