Trends in liver transplantation for primary biliary cirrhosis in the Netherlands 1988-2008

BMC Gastroenterology

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Kuiper, Edith M M ^a   Hansen, Bettina E ^a   Metselaar, Herold J ^a   de Man, Robert A ^a   Haagsma, Els B ^b   van Hoek, Bart ^c   van Buuren, Henk R ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALBUMIN; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; CREATININE; URSODEOXYCHOLIC ACID; CHOLAGOGUE;

ADULT; AGE; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG USE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELD SCORE; MORTALITY; NETHERLANDS; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PROGNOSIS; PRURITUS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREND STUDY; BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CHOLAGOGUES AND CHOLERETICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, BILIARY; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; URSODEOXYCHOLIC ACID;

EID: 78650266271     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471230X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-230X-10-144     Document Type: Article

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