Liver function tests in viremic and nonviremic chronic hepatitis B virus-infected pregnant women: Importance of alanine aminotransferase/sodium ratio

Gastroenterology Nursing

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 422-428

  Elefsiniotis, Ioannis S ^a   Tsoumakas, Konstantinos ^b   Kapritsou, Maria ^c   Magaziotou, Ioanna ^d   Derdemezi, Angeliki ^b   T, Mariolis Sapsakos ^d   Konstantinou, Evangelos A ^d  

^a HELENA VENIZELOU HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b Faculty of Nursing   (Greece)

^c SAINT SAVVAS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; SODIUM; VIRUS DNA;

ADULT; BLOOD; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; VIREMIA; VIROLOGY;

ADULT; ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B, CHRONIC; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, THIRD; SODIUM; VIREMIA;

EID: 84890511025     PISSN: 1042895X     EISSN: 15389766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SGA.0000000000000004     Document Type: Article

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