Serum interleukin 6 levels and cirrhosis-associated pulmonary hypertension

Angiology

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 344-345

  Kalambokis, Georgios N ^a   Mouzaki, Athanasia ^b   Rodi, Maria ^b   Pappas, Konstantinos ^a   Korantzopoulos, Panayiotis ^a   Tsianos, Epameinondas V ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 6;

ADULT; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART OUTPUT; HUMAN; LETTER; LUNG VASCULAR RESISTANCE; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; PATHOGENESIS; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; SCORING SYSTEM; SYSTEMIC VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; INTERLEUKIN-6; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 79953895594     PISSN: 00033197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0003319710396352     Document Type: Letter

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