The prevalence and severity of autonomic dysfuncinduced and non-alcohol-induced liver disease, and tion appears to be related to the severity of liver diswhen present is an independent predictor of mortality. ease. 3 We postulated that patients awaiting liver trans-We postulated that patients who we
Autonomic neuropathy in advanced liver disease
โ Scribed by F Trevisani; G Sica; M Bernardi
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 90 KB
- Volume
- 24
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0270-9139
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โฆ Synopsis
We read with great interest the article by Fleckenstein et Patologica Medica I al. 1 on the poor prognostic meaning of the presence of auto-University of Bologna nomic neuropathy in patients awaiting liver transplantation Bologna, Italy (OLT). After two pioneering studies, 2,3 the authors again draw the attention of clinicians to the importance of the dys-
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