'Out-patient' albumin dialysis for cholestatic patients with intractable pruritus

Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 696-704

  Leckie, P ^a   Tritto, G ^a   Mookerjee, R ^a   Davies, N ^a   Jones, D ^b   Jalan, R ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; CREATININE; HEPARIN; POTASSIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALBUMIN DIALYSIS; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMODYNAMICS; HEMOFILTRATION; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; INTRACTABLE PRURITUS; INTRAHEPATIC CHOLESTASIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PERCEPTION; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PRIMARY SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SECONDARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADULT; AGED; ALBUMINS; BILE ACIDS AND SALTS; CHOLESTASIS; DIALYSIS SOLUTIONS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTPATIENTS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PLATELET COUNT; PRURITUS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RENAL DIALYSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84863409270     PISSN: 02692813     EISSN: 13652036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2036.2012.04994.x     Document Type: Article

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