Synchronous cryptogenic liver cirrhosis and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: A clue to telomere involvement

Hepatology

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 2001-2003

  Carulli, Lucia ^a   Dei Cas, Alessandra ^b   Nascimbeni, Fabio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE;

ABNORMAL RESPIRATORY SOUND; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BONE MARROW DEPRESSION; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CLUBBING FINGERS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DEATH; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DUODENAL ULCER BLEEDING; DYSKERATOSIS CONGENITA; EARLY MENOPAUSE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; FEMALE; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LEUKOPLAKIA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LUNG DIFFUSION CAPACITY; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; NAIL DYSTROPHY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NORMOCHROMIC NORMOCYTIC ANEMIA; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SMOKING; SPLENOMEGALY; TELOMERE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; IDIOPATHIC PULMONARY FIBROSIS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; PEDIGREE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; TELOMERASE;

EID: 84868227460     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: 15273350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.26089     Document Type: Article

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