Randomised clinical trial: Enteral nutrition does not improve the long-term outcome of alcoholic cirrhotic patients with jaundice

Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1166-1174

  Dupont, B ^a   Dao, T ^a   Joubert, C ^a   Dupont Lucas, C ^a   Gloro, R ^a   Nguyen Khac, E ^b   Beaujard, E ^c   Mathurin, P ^d   Vastel, E ^a   Musikas, M ^a   Ollivier, I ^a   Piquet, M A ^a  

^a CAEN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b AMIENS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^c Department of Hepato Gastroenterology   (France)

^d LILLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; BILIRUBIN;

ADULT; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ALCOHOL LIVER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CHILD PUGH SCORE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTIVE TRACT PARAMETERS; ENTERIC FEEDING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HEPATORENAL SYNDROME; HUMAN; INFECTION; INTESTINAL BLEEDING; JAUNDICE; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LOG RANK TEST; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MULTICENTER STUDY; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL PARAMETERS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTHROMBIN TIME; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SURVIVAL TIME;

ENTERAL NUTRITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAUNDICE; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, ALCOHOLIC; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84859911403     PISSN: 02692813     EISSN: 13652036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2036.2012.05075.x     Document Type: Article

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