Mortality risk according to different clinical characteristics of first episode of liver decompensation in cirrhotic Patients: A Nationwide, Prospective, 3-Year Follow-Up Study in Italy

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 108, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1112-1122

  Bruno, Savino ^a   Saibeni, Simone ^a   Bagnardi, Vincenzo ^b,c   Vandelli, Carmen ^d   De Luca, Massimo ^e   Felder, Martina ^f   Fracanzani, Anna Ludovica ^g   Prisco, Cleofe ^h   Vitaliani, Giovanna ⁱ   Simone, Loredana ^j   Gaeta, Giovanni Battista ^k   Stanzione, Maria ^k   Persico, Marcello ^k   Furlan, Caterina ^l   Stroffolini, Tommaso ^l   Salerno, Francesco ^g   Maisonneuve, Patrick ^b   Almasio, Piero Luigi ^m  

^a Dipartimento di Medicina Interna   (Italy)

^b EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^e Dipartimento di Gastroenterologia A O Cardarelli   (Italy)

^f Ospedale Centrale   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^h OSPEDALE NIGUARDA CA GRANDA   (Italy)

ⁱ Ospedale Predabissi   (Italy)

^j UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^k SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^l SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^m UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACUTE ON CHRONIC LIVER FAILURE; ADULT; AGED; ASCITES; DEATH; DECOMPENSATED LIVER CIRRHOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; ECHOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES BLEEDING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT FAILURE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; ITALY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASCITES; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMANS; ITALY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84880215622     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ajg.2013.110     Document Type: Review

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