Lactitol or lactulose in the treatment o
Lactitol or lactulose in the treatment of chronic hepatic encephalopathy: Results of a meta-analysis
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Pierre Blanc; Jean-Pierre Daures; Jean-Michel Rouillon; Pascale Peray; Robert Pi
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Article
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1992
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Lactitol (p-galactosido-sorbitol) has been recently compared with lactulose for the treatment of chronic hepatic encephalopathy in a few studies, each comprising a small number of patients. The results are controversial. We studied the efficiency and tolerance of both compounds by using a meta-analy