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Does cardiac dysfunction explain deleterious effects of beta-blockers in cirrhosis and refractory ascites?

✍ Scribed by Aleksander Krag; Flemming Bendtsen; Søren Møller

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2010
Tongue
English
Weight
369 KB
Volume
53
Category
Article
ISSN
0270-9139

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