Terlipressin and hyponatraemia: The cause or the treatment?

Internal Medicine Journal

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 606-607

  Krag, A ^a  

^a ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ARGIPRESSIN; SODIUM; TERLIPRESSIN;

BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VOLUME; DRUG MEGADOSE; ESOPHAGUS VARICES BLEEDING; HEMODYNAMICS; HEPATORENAL SYNDROME; HUMAN; HYPONATREMIA; HYPOVOLEMIA; LETTER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRESSORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; TREATMENT DURATION; VASOCONSTRICTION;

FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPONATREMIA; LIVER FAILURE; LYPRESSIN; MALE;

EID: 84877898882     PISSN: 14440903     EISSN: 14455994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/imj.12121     Document Type: Letter

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