Patients with cirrhosis admitted to an Intensive Care Unit

Journal of Hepatology

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 230-231

  Cholongitas, Evangelos ^a,b   Agarwal, Banwari ^b   Antoniadis, Nikolaos ^a   Burroughs, Andrew K ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LACTIC ACID;

ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMOFILTRATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LETTER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FUNCTION; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL;

FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE;

EID: 84862680343     PISSN: 01688278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhep.2012.01.024     Document Type: Letter

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