Doppler assessment of splanchnic arterial flow in patients with liver cirrhosis: Correlation with ammonia plasma levels and MELD score

Journal of Clinical Ultrasound

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 264-269

  Glišić, Tijana M ^a   Perišić, Mirjana D ^a,b   Dimitrijevic, Sladjana ^c   Jurišić, Vladimir ^d  

^a CLINICAL CENTER OF SERBIA   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KRAGUJEVAC   (Serbia)

^d University of Kragujevac Medical Faculty   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Ammonia level; Duplex Doppler ultrasonography; Liver cirrhosis; MELD score

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; END STAGE LIVER DISEASE; FEMALE; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMAN; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RENAL ARTERY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPLANCHNIC BLOOD FLOW; SPLEEN ARTERY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; AMMONIA; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; END STAGE LIVER DISEASE; FEMALE; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RENAL ARTERY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPLANCHNIC CIRCULATION; SPLENIC ARTERY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 84900303256     PISSN: 00912751     EISSN: 10970096     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jcu.22135     Document Type: Article

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