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Oral glutamine challenge correlates with minimal hepatic encephalopathy and predicts overt episodes

✍ Scribed by Lourdes Grande; Ines Camacho; Soledad Benitez; Manuel Romero-Gomez


Book ID
118564950
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2002
Tongue
English
Weight
104 KB
Volume
36
Category
Article
ISSN
0168-8278

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