Cirrhosis improvement to alcoholic liver fibrosis after passive abstinence

BMJ Case Reports

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages

  Takahashi, Hideaki ^a,b,c   Shigefuku, Ryuta ^a   Maeyama, Shiro ^a,d   Suzuki, Michihiro ^a  

^a ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Sapporo Shirakabadai Hospital   (Japan)

^c SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d Shiodome Medical Examination Clinic   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALCOHOL ABSTINENCE; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL LIVER DISEASE; ALCOHOLISM; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FOLLOW UP; HEMIPARESIS; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FIBROSIS; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLENOMEGALY;

EID: 84892738153     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1757790X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2013-201618     Document Type: Article

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