Complications of chronic liver disease

Clinics and Research in Hepatology and Gastroenterology

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 262-267

  Tsouka, Alexandra ^a   McLin, Valérie A ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; CALCIUM; CARBOHYDRATE; COLESTYRAMINE; COPPER; DIURETIC AGENT; ERGOCALCIFEROL; FAT; FATTY ACID; IRON; MANGANESE; PHOSPHATE; PROTEIN; RETINOL; RIFAMPICIN; STEROID; VITAMIN D; VITAMIN K GROUP; ZINC;

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL DEFICIENCY; ARTICLE; BONE MASS; BONE METABOLISM; CALORIC INTAKE; CHILD NUTRITION; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; ENERGY METABOLISM; FAT INTAKE; FATTY ACID METABOLISM; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; INNATE IMMUNITY; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LIPID ABSORPTION; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LUNG COMPLICATION; MALABSORPTION; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; RETINOL DEFICIENCY; SIDE EFFECT; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY; VITAMIN DEFICIENCY; VITAMIN K DEFICIENCY;

CARDIOMYOPATHIES; CHILD; CHOLESTASIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIETARY CARBOHYDRATES; DIETARY FATS; DIETARY PROTEINS; ENERGY INTAKE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HEPATORENAL SYNDROME; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; IMMUNITY, INNATE; INSULIN RESISTANCE; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DISEASES; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PROGNOSIS; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY; VITAMINS;

EID: 84861731415     PISSN: 22107401     EISSN: 2210741X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinre.2012.03.015     Document Type: Article

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