Treatment with metadoxine and its impact on early mortality in patients with severe alcoholic Hepatitis

Annals of Hepatology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 343-352

  Higuera De la Tijera, Fátima ^a   Servín Caamaño, Alfredo I ^b   Cruz Herrera, Javier ^b   Serralde Zúñiga, Aurora E ^c   Abdo Francis, Juan M ^a   Gutiérrez Reyes, Gabriela ^d   Pérez Hernández, José L ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE BAJA CALIFORNIA   (Mexico)

^b HOSPITAL GENERAL DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c Fundacion Mexicana para la Salud AC   (Mexico)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Early survival; Prednisone; Theraphy

Indexed keywords

ABRIXONE; ALBUMIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; FLUCONAZOLE; GLUCOCORTICOID; LACTULOSE; METADOXINE; METRONIDAZOLE; NORFLOXACIN; OCTREOTIDE; ORNITHINE ASPARTATE; PREDNISONE; TERLIPRESSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIOXIDANT; DRUG COMBINATION; DRUGS USED IN THE TREATMENT OF ADDICTION; PYRIDOXINE; PYROGLUTAMIC ACID;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL LIVER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PERITONITIS; BLEEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG RESPONSE; DYSPHAGIA; EPIGASTRIC BURNING; ESOPHAGUS CANDIDIASIS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HEPATORENAL SYNDROME; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; ODYNOPHAGIA; OPEN STUDY; PNEUMONIA; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT DURATION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VARICEAL HEMORRHAGE; COMPLICATION; DRUG COMBINATION; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEPATITIS, ALCOHOLIC; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL DETERRENTS; ANTIOXIDANTS; DRUG COMBINATIONS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HEPATITIS, ALCOHOLIC; HEPATORENAL SYNDROME; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDNISONE; PYRIDOXINE; PYRROLIDONECARBOXYLIC ACID; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84901466459     PISSN: 16652681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s1665-2681(19)30863-4     Document Type: Article

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