Background: Patients with cirrhosis in Child-Pugh class C or those in class B who have persistent bleeding at endoscopy are at high risk for treatment failure and a poor prognosis, even if they have undergone rescue treatment with a transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS). This study ev
Genes and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease
โ Scribed by Nimantha Mark Wilfred de Alwis; Christopher Paul Day
- Publisher
- Current Science Inc.
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 155 KB
- Volume
- 8
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1534-4827
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