Liver stiffness correlates with Child-Pugh-Turcotte and MELD scores in HIV/hepatitis C virus-coinfected patients with cirrhosis

Liver International

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1031-1032

  Recio, Eva ^a   Macías, Juan ^a   Rivero Juárez, Antonio ^b   Téllez, Francisco ^c   Merino, Dolores ^d   Ríos, Mjosé ^e   Márquez, Manuel ^f   Omar, Mohamed ^g   Rivero, Antonio ^b   Lorenzo, Sandra ^c   Merchante, Nicolás ^a   Pineda, Juan A ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE VALME   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO REINA SOFÍA   (Spain)

^c Hospital La Línea   (Spain)

^d HOSPITAL JUAN RAMÓN JIMÉNEZ   (Spain)

^e HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN MACARENA   (Spain)

^f HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DE LA VICTORIA   (Spain)

^g Unit of Infectious Diseases   (Spain)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; CHILD PUGH TURCOTTE SCORE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIGESTIVE TRACT PARAMETERS; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LETTER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER STIFFNESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIXED INFECTION; MODEL FOR END STAGE LIVER DISEASE SCORE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPAIN;

ADULT; COINFECTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPAIN;

EID: 84861985140     PISSN: 14783223     EISSN: 14783231     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1478-3231.2012.02782.x     Document Type: Letter

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