Clinical significance of elevated plasma
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Masakatsu Uchihara; Namiki Izumi; Chifumi Sato; Fumiaki Marumo
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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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Endothelin is a newly discovered potent vasoconstrictor peptide. To explain the clinical significance of endothelin in patients with chronic liver diseases, we measured the plasma concentration of endothelin in patients with chronic hepatitis (n = 15), cirrhosis with ascites (n = 8) and cirrhosis wi