Decompensated cirrhotics have slower intestinal transit times as compared with compensated cirrhotics and healthy controls

Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 888-893

  Chander Roland, Bani ^a   Garcia Tsao, Guadalupe ^b   Ciarleglio, Maria M ^c   Deng, Yanhong ^c   Sheth, Anish ^d  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Princeton Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

cirrhosis; small intestinal bacterial overgrowth; small intestinal motility disorders

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BACTERIAL PERITONITIS; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPE; CHILD PUGH SCORE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPENSATED LIVER CIRRHOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES BLEEDING; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HEPATORENAL SYNDROME; HUMAN; INTESTINAL DYSMOTILITY; INTESTINE MOTILITY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH EMPTYING;

ASCITES; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COLON; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; HUMANS; INTESTINE, SMALL; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERITONITIS; PILOT PROJECTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STOMACH;

EID: 84886600297     PISSN: 01920790     EISSN: 15392031     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCG.0b013e31829006bb     Document Type: Article

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